Background
Edward Grazda was born on March 27, 1947 in Queens, New York, United States.
(Scholar Jerrilynn D. Dodds joined forces with photographe...)
Scholar Jerrilynn D. Dodds joined forces with photographer Edward Grazda to document the Islamic presence in New York by focusing on the places Muslims congregate to worship their god - the Mosque.
https://www.amazon.com/New-York-Masjid-Mosques/dp/1576871355/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=Edward+Grazda&qid=1578643049&sr=8-5
2002
(Starting in the 1870s, trading posts were where Native Am...)
Starting in the 1870s, trading posts were where Native Americans interacted with the Anglo world, bartering wool, rugs, baskets, and other items they made for coffee, cooking oil, flour, and other goods they needed. The trading posts functioned not only as stores but also as post offices and general gathering places to become the defacto hubs of cultural exchange. Trade by barter largely ended in the 1930s. Today a few still function as trading posts and U.S. post offices, but many became convenience stores and gas stations while others were abandoned and fell prey to decay and vandalism. Some remain in part but only marked by a stray wall or foundation stone. Since 1970 Ed Grazda has been searching for and photographing these buildings and in this book the reader is led on a tour showing those that are still functioning all the way to those that have succumbed to the ravages of time and neglect. Combining vintage photographs with more contemporary images of the same locations from 2008 to today, A Last Glance reminds us of the fascinating relationship and close exchange of culture that once existed between Native Americans and settlers and how each passing year makes its mark upon everything and our understanding and acceptance of our shared histories.
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Glance-Trading-Posts-Corners/dp/1576877671/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Edward+Grazda&qid=1578643049&sr=8-4
2015
(The black and white photos in Mean Streets offer a look a...)
The black and white photos in Mean Streets offer a look at the infamously hardscrabble NYC in the 70s and 80s captured with the deliberate and elegant eye that propelled Grazda to further success.
https://www.amazon.com/Mean-Streets-1970-1985-Edward-Grazda/dp/1576878430/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Edward+Grazda&qid=1578642454&sr=8-1
2017
(Inspired by Lionel Rogosin's classic 1956 film On the Bow...)
Inspired by Lionel Rogosin's classic 1956 film On the Bowery, Ed Grazda's On The Bowery shows the weathered life and times he encountered on the Bowery in 1971. Perhaps the grittiest part of the city in those years, Grazda captured all the sorrow, hardship, and general bad luck upon the faces of those who called the Bowery their home. Grazda provides an important reminder to us all that it was only a few decades ago that the Bowery was a much different scene–and that New York never stops evolving.
https://www.amazon.com/Bowery-Ed-Grazda/dp/1576879259/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=Edward+Grazda&qid=1578642454&sr=8-2
(Documentary photographer Grazda presents a pictorial intr...)
Documentary photographer Grazda presents a pictorial introduction to the recent history of Afghanistan since the Mujahideen capture of Kabul in 1992.
https://www.amazon.com/Afghanistan-Diary-1992-2000-Edward-Grazda/dp/1576870472/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Edward+Grazda&qid=1578642454&sr=8-3
Edward Grazda was born on March 27, 1947 in Queens, New York, United States.
Edward Grazda attended the Rhode Island School of Design, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography in 1969.
He was a freelance photographer. He says: "My work is about the real world, the surreal, and the unreal world of a photograph." From 1972 to 1978 he photographed in Latin America, and he worked with multiple images until 1974. In 1980 he began photographing in Asia. He is the author of “Afghanistan Diary 1992-2000” (PowerHouse Books, 2000) and “Afghanistan 1980-1989” (DerAlltag, 1990). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take and Granta and is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and MOMA among others.
In 2009, with Jeff Ladd and Valerie Sonnenthal, Ed founded Errata Editions – a publishing company dedicated to making important rare photo books accessible with its Books on Books series.
(Starting in the 1870s, trading posts were where Native Am...)
2015(The black and white photos in Mean Streets offer a look a...)
2017(Inspired by Lionel Rogosin's classic 1956 film On the Bow...)
(Documentary photographer Grazda presents a pictorial intr...)
(Scholar Jerrilynn D. Dodds joined forces with photographe...)
2002Quotations: "My work is about the real world, the surreal, and the unreal world of a photograph."