Norton Museum of Art

Ellen Graham: Unscripted, March 2 – July 7, 2024

https://www.norton.org/exhibitions/ellen-graham

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.

Lauren Richman, Ph.D., William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography, discusses the Norton's exhibition, Ellen Graham: Unscripted.

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida held the exhibition from March 2 to July 7, 2024.

Learn more about this remarkable photographer who for more than six decades wielded her camera to summon the essence of a person on light-sensitive paper. Best known for her portraits of actors, musicians, performers, and athletes, 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.

The following 37 images are the exhibited prints.

Alexis Graham, Alberto Giacometti-Grande femme II, Pasadena, CA, 1977

Andy Warhol with Stuffed Dog, The Factory, New York, NY, 1974

Arlene Dahl, Beverly Hills, CA, 1987

Barbara Streisand, Gershwin Theater, Rehearsal, Los Angeles, CA, 1971

Carrie Fisher, Beverly Hills, CA, 1974

Cloris Leachman, Dinah Leachman, Los Angeles, CA, 1974

David Bowie, Rehearsal, Los Angeles, CA, 1975

David Bowie, Rehearsal, Los Angeles, CA, 1975

David Bowie, Rehearsal, Los Angeles, CA, 1975

Diana Vreeland, Marisa Berenson, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1975

Gloria Swanson, “Airport 1975” Film Set, Universal Studios, Hollywood, CA, 1974

Gwenel, Trocadero, Paris, France, 1990

Hamish Bowles, Palazzo Morosini Brandolini, Venice, Italy, 1999

Helmut Berger, Beverly Hills, CA, 1984

Helmut Newton and June Newton, Paris, France, 1990

Isabel Kara, Duchess of Seville, Eifel Tower, Paris, 1990

Joey Heatherton, Nantucket, MA, 1980

Kirk Douglas, Beverly Hills, CA, 1967

Leroy Neiman, New York, NY, 1987

Leslie Caron, New York, NY, 1985

Lizabeth Scott, Beverly Hills, CA, 1966

Madonna Impersonator, Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 1990

Marie LaForêt at Home, Paris, 1989

Marlene Dietrich, Curtain Call, New York, NY, 1967

Michael Caine, Beverly Hills, CA, 1970

Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France, 1989

Nadia Gardiner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1962

Naked Lunch, New York City, NY, 1974

Natalie Wood with Courtney Wagner, Palm Springs, 1973

Omar Sharif, Malibu, CA, 1967

Peter Martins, With Alexander Calder Sculpture, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 1983

Rosemarie Stack and Stranger, Del Mar, CA, 1970

Sammy Davis Jr., “Bojangles,” Los Angeles, CA, 1970

Sharon Tate, Beverly Hills, CA, 1968

Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes, Beverly Hills, CA, 1983

Viva, Topanga Canyon, Los Angeles, CA, 1974

Warren Beatty, Beverly Hills, CA, 1967