Graham Howe

Graham Howe (born 1950)

In 1972, Howe became one of the first employees of The Photographers' Gallery, London, a research assistant at the Royal Photographic Society, London, and, in 1973, the founding Director of the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, where in 1974 he organised a exhibition and publication of contemporary practitioners New photography Australia : a selective survey,^[6] and published Aspects of Australian Photography.^[7]

In 1976, he became the curator for Graham Nash and from 1977 was Los Angeles Correspondent for the Australian journal Light Vision, to which he contributed a photo-essay Sneaker in the Sky for the January 1978 edition. From 1984 to 1985 he was a visiting curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

In 1988, he incorporated Curatorial Assistance, Inc., a company specializing in art and museum services, and in 2000 he founded Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that originates and travels exhibitions of art to museums worldwide.

Collections

Howe's photographic work is collected in museums and galleries including

• Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, 2021[10]
• California Cool: Art in Los Angeles 1960s–70s, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2018-19^[11]
• Forsaken Utopias: Photographs from the OCMA Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California, 2018^[12]
• Graham Howe: Colour Theory, Rooftop Gallery, Bangkok, 2013^[13]
• Graham Howe: Color Theory, Sol Mednick Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 2012^[14]
• Street Sight, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena. Curated by Tim Wride, 2011.^[15]
• Time Signatures, Grunwald Study Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, 2011^{[citation needed]}
• And Howe! Photographs By Graham Howe, 1968–2008, (mid-career survey)
  California Museum of Photography, Riverside. Curated by Colin Westerbeck, 2009.^[16]
• Graham Howe, Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan, 1984, publication with essay by Colin Westerbeck^{[citation needed]}
• Arranged Image Photography, a traveling exhibition organized by the Boise Gallery of Art, 1983–1984^{[citation needed]}
• Graham Howe, BC Space, Laguna Beach, California, 1981^[17]
• Graham Howe, The Photographers’ Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1980^[18]
• Invented Images, a traveling exhibition organized by the
  University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, 1980^[19]
• Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1979^[20]
• The Photograph as Artifice, a traveling exhibition organized by The Art Galleries, California State University, 1978^[21]

Curatorial research and publications

Howe's main area of expertise is early Modern twentieth century photography. He has published extensively on the work of American photographer,

• Howe, G. (1974). New Photography Australia: A Selective Survey. Sydney: The Australian Centre for Photography. p. 103.
  ISBN 978-0-909339-00-5
  .
• Howe, G. (1974). Aspects of Australian Photography. Sydney: The Australian Centre for Photography. p. 71.
  ISBN 978-0-909339-02-9
  .
• Howe, G. (essay) (1976). Paul Outerbridge Jr. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
• Howe, G.; Nagatani, P.; Rankin, S. (1978). Two Views of Manzanar: Ansel Adams and Toyo Miyatake. Los Angeles: Wight Gallery, UCLA.
  ASIN B001BST592
  .
• Howe, G.; Nash, G.; Nash, S. (1978). The Graham Nash Collection. Los Angeles: Nash Press.
  ASIN B0012SCE6M
  .
• Hawkins, G.; Howe, G.; Markham, J. (1980). Paul Outerbridge Jr. Photographs. New York: Rizzoli. p. 159.
  ISBN 978-0-8478-0281-4
  .
• Dines, E.; Howe, G. (1981). Paul Outerbridge Jr.: A Singular Aesthetic. Los Angeles: Arabesque Books.
  ISBN 0-940872-02-1
  .
• Howe, G. (1984). 10 Photographers: Olympic Images.
  ISBN 978-0-914357-06-3
  .
• Howe, G.; Schaaf, L. (1990). Tracings of Light: Sir John Herschel and the Camera Lucida. San Francisco: The Friends of Photography.
  ISBN 978-0-933286-55-9
  .
• Howe, G. (1991). Eikoh Hosoe: META. Pasadena: Curatorial Assistance. pp. 123 pages.
  ASIN B0006F1LRU
  .
• Howe, G. (1996). Nudes: Paul Outerbridge. Milan: Federico Motta Editore. pp. 60 pages.
  ISBN 978-88-7179-108-1
  .
• Howe, G. (1999). Camera Over Hollywood—Photographs by John Swope. New York: Distributed Art Publishers. pp. 144 pages.
  ISBN 978-1-891024-08-5
  .
• Howe, G. (2008). E.O. Hoppe's Australia. New York: W.W. Norton. pp. 208 pages.
  ISBN 978-0-393-06611-1
  .
• Howe, G., with co-curators Ewing, W. and Prodger, P. (2009). Paul Outerbridge: New Color Photographs from Mexico and California, 1948–1955. Portland:
  ISBN 978-1-59005-261-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• Pal, Dr. P., Howe, G. Radhika Sabavala for the Marg Foundation, Mumbai (2010). E.O. Hoppé's Bombay: Photographs from 1929. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Assistance Inc.
  ISBN 978-8-190832-31-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• Pal, Dr. P., Howe, G. Radhika Sabavala for the Marg Foundation, Mumbai (2010). E.O. Hoppé's Santiniketan: Photographs from 1929. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Assistance Inc.
  ISBN 978-9-380581-04-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• Howe, G., with Beth Gates Warren (2017). Edward Weston: Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist. New York: Merrell Publishers.
  ISBN 978-1-8589-4663-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• Bowlt, J Howe, G., Minin, O. Iskusstvo (2018). One Hundred and One Photographs: Emil Otto Hoppé and the Ballets Russes. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Assistance, Inc.
  ISBN 978-0-982938-81-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )
• Howe, G. Ionescu, A.S., Lundeberg, M., Dragoo, M. (2019). E.O. Hoppé: Photographs of Greater Romania, 1923. Pasadena, California: Curatorial Books.
  ISBN 978-1-733641-41-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
  )