Ellen Graham: Unscripted

The Norton Museum of Art: March 2 – July 7, 2024

For over six decades, Ellen Graham has photographed actors, musicians, models, athletes, and royals at their most vulnerable: unplanned, unposed, and unscripted. Imbuing a sense of immediacy, showing moments of intimacy and humor, and celebrating her remarkable ability to disarm her subjects, Graham’s photographs provide unique insight into a person’s inner dimensions. This exhibition highlights several of Graham’s gifts to the Norton along with a generous array of special loans — both photographs and photographic ephemera — from the Ellen Graham Archive.

Talking Pictures

Publisher: Pointed Leaf Press, 2011

Talking Pictures brings together over 200 black and white images culled from 40 years of Ellen Graham's work for magazines including People and Time, her personal archives and family photographs. These striking, intimate images are accompanied by a candid and entertaining personal narrative that takes you behind the scenes, and into the moment of the photo shoot itself.

The Bad & The Beautiful

Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, 2004

Graham's 2004 book, The Bad & The Beautiful, offers the reader a unique and intimate look at the rich, the famous, and the scrutinized. Whether shooting actors, European royalty, or even prostitutes along Paris’s Bois de Boulogne, she redefines the resonating myths that have come to surround these figures. These 160 images culled from her work for such magazines as W, Time, and Newsweek, present a fresh and sophisticated look at our favorite stars as well as a trip down memory lane, Graham’s compelling photographs will attract all those who are fascinated by celebrity and pop culture.

The Growling Gourmet

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1976

A unique book with pictures of notable people with their dogs and over 100 recipes for by these "celebrity hounds".

Mentioned in The New York Times here.

Suzi: A Star's Story

A sex symbol's search for love

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1973

This book is a parody of the moving-picture industry, starring a charming Pekingese with photographs by Ellen Graham.