Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is a British singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and for his songwriting contributions with the British pop group The Hollies, and with the folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Nash is a photography collector and a published photographer.

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Music career

• 1942: Graham Nash was born in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. He spent his childhood in Salford, a working class city within Greater Manchester, where he attended state schools.
• 1960s: Nash became a founding member of The Hollies, one of the pop groups from the UK associated with the "British Invasion". Using his keen sense of social poetry, often writing in collaboration with Allan Clarke, Nash contributed to many of the band's songs. He shaped the group's artistic direction on the albums Evolution , and Butterfly . Nash endeavoured to bring the then nascent hippie aesthetic to The Hollies sound. However, it failed to register with the group's traditional audience in England and throughout the rest of Europe.
• 1968: During a visit to the US Nash found himself in Laurel Canyon with Mama Cass Elliot, David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Nash began to explore recreational drug use and soon left The Hollies to form a new group with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, Crosby, Stills & Nash.
• 1969: Joined by Neil Young to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY); August, CSN play the Woodstock Festival joined by new member, Neil Young. ^[1]
• 1970: CSNY defined the Woodstock era as part of the TV documentary on the Woodstock festival with their rendition of "Woodstock", written by Joni Mitchell.

Nash becomes politically active after moving to San Francisco. Along with others like Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan, Nash presses for social change with his "lyrics of outrage": "Military Madness" and "Chicago (We Can Change the World)". His songs resonate because they derive from shared experience: "Immigration Man".

• 1971: Nash teams with Crosby as a recording and performing duo. Also releases his first solo album, Songs For Beginners
• 1974: CSNY Arena Reunion Tour.
• 1977: Nash and Crosby reunite with Stills as CSN.
• 1978: Nash becomes a citizen of the United States of America on August 14.
• 1979: Nash co-founds Musicians United for Safe Energy.
• 1982-1983: Nash rejoins his former group The Hollies and scores a sizable hit with them, a remake of The Supremes' "Stop! In the Name of Love" before leaving once more after a year.
• 2005: Nash collaborates with Norwegian musicians a-ha on the songs "Over the Treetop" (penned by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) and "Cosy Prisons" (penned by Magne Furuholmen) for the Analogue recording.
• 2006: Nash works with David Gilmour and David Crosby on the title track of David Gilmour's third solo album, On an Island . In March 2006, the album is released and quickly reaches #1 on the UK charts. Nash and Crosby subsequently tour the UK with Gilmour, singing backup on "On an Island", "The Blue", "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", and "Find the Cost of Freedom".
• 2007: Nash works with No Nukes group against the expansion of nuclear power. Nash and partners contribute a new music video version of the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth". ^{[2] [3]}
• 2008: Nash appears on the season 7 finale of American Idol singing "Teach Your Children" with Brooke White.

Photography career

Interested in photography as a child, Nash began to collect photographs in the early 1970s. Having acquired more than a thousand prints by 1976, Nash hired Graham Howe as his photography curator. In 1978 through 1984 a touring exhibition of selections from the Graham Nash Collection toured to more than a dozen museums world wide. Nash decided to sell his 2,000 print collection though Sotheby's auction house in 1990 where it set an auction record for the highest grossing sale of a single private collection of photography. ^[4] Proceeds of the auction sale provided the financial means to found Nash Editions , the first ever digital fine-art printing studio.

In the late 1980s, Nash began to experiment with the early digital printers then becoming available through commercial printing bureaus in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Creating a true black and white print proved difficult. None of the printers were very successful although the IRIS Graphics 3047 printer showed promise because it could print on fine art papers. Nash met programmer David Coons through friend Steve Boulter of IRIS Graphics. With image management software written by David Coons and using a custom scanner designed and assembled by David Coons, David Coons and Graham Nash developed methods to adapt the IRIS printer for the fine-arts printing of black-and-white photographs on archival-paper substrates. ^[5]

The system that was to form the basis of Nash Editions was first tested in 1989 by Sally Larsen to produce her Transformer ink jet print series, one of which is now in the permanent collection of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. These very first IRIS prints made with David Coons' software were printed by him on one of Walt Disney Studio's IRIS Graphics IRIS 3047 printers.

In 1990 Graham Nash showed his own photography at Parco Stores in Tokyo. The Parco show entitled Sunlight on Silver was a series of celebrity portraits by Nash which were reconstructed by David Coons from a proof sheet. This Parco show was the first exhibition ever of digitally produced fine art. The show travelled throughout Japan and was seen by thousands. ^[6]. Subsequently, Nash exhibited his photographs at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego and elsewhere. ^[7]

In 2005, Nash donated an IRIS Graphics 3047 printer and Nash Editions ephemera to the National Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Institution.

Discography

Please also see discographies for The Hollies, Crosby & Nash, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

• Songs for Beginners , Atlantic 1971
• Wild Tales , Atlantic 1974
• Earth & Sky , EMI 1980
• Innocent Eyes , Atlantic 1986
• Songs for Survivors , Artemis 2002
• Reflections , Rhino 2009

Other contributions

• Eklektikos Live (2005) - "Our House"

Bibliography

• Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash by Nash and Garrett White (2004)
• Off The Record: Songwriters on Songwriting (2002)

References

1. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
2. ''For What It’s Worth,'' No Nukes Reunite After Thirty Years
3. Musicians Act to Stop New Atomic Reactors
4. Beth Gates-Warren, editor, ''Photographs from the Collection of Graham Nash'', Sotheby's, New York, 25 April 1990
5. Harald Johnson, "Mastering Digital Printing", Thompson Course Technology, 2002, ISBN 1929685653
6. Masayoshi Yamada, ''Graham Nash Photographs: Sunlight on Silver'', Parco Co. Ltd, Tokyo, 1990
7. Garrat White, ''Eye to Eye: Photographs by Graham Nash'', Steidl, 2004 ISBN 3882439602