Grant Mudford lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1944. After studying architecture at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, he founded a commercial photography studio there. From his studio, Mudford created some early work for advertising, fashion, magazine editorials, and theater, as well as numerous short films. From 1974 to 1977, he traveled throughout the United States, supported by a Visual Arts Board Travel Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. At that time, he settled in Los Angeles. In the following years, Mudford contributed editorials to numerous publications, including Architectural Record, Esquire, Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Progressive Architecture, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, and Architecture. He has also participated in more than three dozen solo and group exhibitions from 1974 to the present.
Regularly providing advice to LA's many photographic and artistic communities, Mudford is a technical guru, best known for his mastery of point-light printing. As a commercial photographer, he has extensively documented the structures of some of America's most accomplished architects, including Louis Kahn, Frank Gehry, Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, and Frank Israel. Capturing both the architect's overall vision and the subtleties of structural details, Mudford treats architecture as something made to enhance the eye and the mind. Underscoring the classical appeal of correct proportion and line, his photographs analyze the relationships of geometry, demonstrating how shapes and lines define the way we live. Conveying the essence of a building through his choice of details, Mudford is one of the world's foremost interpreters of architectural space and light.
