BUT STILL, IT TURNS

"There comes a time when it is no longer an art that is here, in a volume immaculate, or over there, on a pristine gallery wall...but art that is has become the way you see the world. You no longer just to look (up, out); it is inside you like a lamp, which illuminates all the details spread out below in what might otherwise be "total darkness." - Ian Penman, screenwriter. With But Still, It Turns, Paul Graham crafts a subtle thesis and a revitalizing manifesto for the photography. The dynamic and diverse work gathered here advocates a dedication shamelessly, but not without complication, to the brilliant tangle of the reality. Without being tempted by the artifice of the studio or the restrictive requirements from conventional documentary, these artists tell open-ended stories that move, warp and branch out, in tune with life as it is is. Gregory Halpern's Californian Daydream ZZYZX; Empathy Exercise Vanessa Winship's peripatetic, She Dances on Jackson; the assemblages Humans of the Lost Coast by Curran Hatleberg; The Rich and Countless One Wall Stanley Wolukau Wanambwa's Web; and What's the Mortality-Tinted America Remains by Richard Choi. All these works are brought together in a harmony and a Illuminating dissonance, as Graham teases new form photographic. Its title is the words supposedly whispered by Galileo after having been forced to withdraw his observations of the world; what can be seen here, in Graham's words, is "all the infinite inbreeding in the world." The book includes essays by Paul Graham, Rebecca Bengal and Ian Penman. Published as part of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York, January 2021. Paul Graham (born 1956) is a photographer British. He has published three investigative monographs, as well as 17 other publications.