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LONNIE GRAHAM (1954 - ) Grass Cutter, Muguga, Kenya.
Silver gelatin print, 1996. 431x342 mm; 17x13½ inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, verso.
Provenance: collection of the artist.
Lonnie Graham's series Conversation with the World is a 30-year survey of his connections with individuals in which he reveals the superficiality of borders and celebrates human commonality.
Graham studied graphic design and commercial photography at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and studied fine art photography and drawing at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he studied with Robert Frank and Donald Kuspit. In 1977, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where he assisted Larry Sultan and visual anthropologist John Collier Jr. Graham, and was mentored in large format photography by Pirkle Jones.
In 2023, he was named a distinguished professor of Visual Art at Pennsylvania State University, where he has taught for over 20 years. He is the former Acting Associate Director of the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, PA, and Director of Photography at Manchester Craftsmen's Guild in Pittsburgh, PA. He has been awarded a Pew Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and executed several major commissions, including the African/American Garden Project. He has exhibited at the Goethe Institute in Accra, Ghana, Christchurch, New Zealand, La Maison de Etat-Unis in Paris, and the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.
Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
