Edward Grazda      
         
 

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Mean Streets NYC 1970-1985
Songwriters Workshop 24 July 1964
Trading Posts of the Four Corners
Oman (2005-2006)
Vietnam (1990-1994-1995)
Mosques of New York (1993-2000)
Pakistan/Afghanistan (1980-2004)
American Color Slides (1971-1979)
Peru (1973 & 1977)
On the Bowery (1971)
Folk to Rock (1963-1965)

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Born in Flushing, Queens, Edward Grazda studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. During the 1970s he photographed in Latin America. Since 1980 he has photographed in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 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. He has received grants from The New York Foundation For The Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow four times. “NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York” with text by Jerrilynn Dodds and photographs by Edward Grazda was published by PowerHouse Books in May 2002. Ed continued to photograph in Afghanistan until 2004, and has photographed in Oman (2005-2006).  “A Last Glance: Trading Posts of the Four Corners” was published by PowerHouse books in the Fall of 2015.

Recent books include MEAN STREETS: NYC 1970-1985 (powerHouse Books, 2017), ON THE BOWERY: NYC 1971 (powerHouse Books, 2019), ASIA CALLING: A PHOTOGRAPHERS NOTEBOOK 1980-1997 (powerHouse Books, 2021), LIMA 1970's & PERU 1973-1974 (Penumbra Foundation 2019), VISUAL HISTORY: AFGHANISTAN: 1980 –2004 (Fraglich, 2021), VIAJES: PERU 1973-1974 (World Headquarters, 2023).

 
         
         
         
         
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