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Photo of the Week #223

David Graham

Photo of a colorful sign that reads "BUY NOW PAY LATER", standing alone in the arid Arizona desert.

Route 64 West of Route 89, AZ, 1986

Description

Dece,ber 12, 2022
This photograph pays tribute to the United States as the source of two enduring and seemingly boundless promises: the vast landscape of the American West, and buying on credit. The picture is representative of David Graham's career-long investigation into the way that signage and iconography are embedded into the American landscape. Graham's witty eye always yields colorful images that are droll yet illuminating.

This picture is among those featured in THEN/NOW, a retrospective exhibition devoted to David Graham's career teaching photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The show is on view now through February 1st in the The Photography Program Gallery. The exhibit honors Graham's more than twenty years of work as a professor in the University of the Arts Photography Program.

 

David Graham: THEN/NOW
December 8 - February 1, 2023
The Photography Program Gallery
211 S. Broad St., 15th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Mon-Fri 10 am-4 pm (holiday hours may apply)