PAUL GRAHAM - A1: THE GREAT NORTH ROAD general readers

general readers

Many vanished pubs where social life took place

where Prague beer was brewed

has turned into open war

The photographic windows throughout this book look out onto a buried past that continues to inform and shape our present through the fragments that have survived destruction

PAUL GRAHAM - A1: THE GREAT NORTH ROAD general readersA1 The Great North Road was Paul Grahams first book, published in 1983. Despite the UK having a vibrant photographic scene at the time, there were only handful of monographic books Chris Killip and Martin Parr had one each and no dedicated publishers or distributors. Graham had to self publish A1, but as the first colour book, it had a startling impact on British photography. Uniting the tradition of social documentary with the fresh approach of new