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"I have been a photographer for most of my life. ...I have always enjoyed observing the life around me, and I had a camera before I owned a guitar."—Graham Nash
Aperture is pleased to announce the addition of a very special limited-edition print by Graham Nash to our Limited-Edition Photographs program. From a very early age Graham Nash was making photographs; when he was ten years old, his father, an amateur photographer, showed him the art of developing negatives in the family kitchen and turned the young Nash's bedroom into a darkroom. Recently, Nash referred to those early experiences as "[that] piece of magic that would change my life forever." After achieving musical success with David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Neil Young, he avidly began collecting photography. After building one of the most important collections in private hands, Nash sold it at auction to start Nash Editions—the first fine-art digital printmaking studio in the world—with his partner Mac Holbert. The mission of Nash Editions was to create an environment where artists felt comfortable experimenting with this new digital print technology. Aperture magazine issue 136 featured work produced by Nash Editions in a piece on the making of the first digitally produced photography portfolio.
Nash began exhibiting his own work in 1990, and later, one hundred and fifty of his photographs were published in Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash (Steidl, 2004). Many of these photographs were taken while Graham was traveling on tour. Hiroshima, Japan, 1987—included in his monograph—typifies what Nash describes as his process: "I love not knowing what's ready to greet me. It's about the hunt. It's out there. I just have to find it. At times I put myself in a space to catch images, at others I'm just trying to deal with all the images swirling around me in this chaotic world. Invariably, I find something that I recognize as having value to me, and hopefully for others." This image of a found object echoes the hopefulness of Nash's point of view: "There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment."
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