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Peter Fraser

Hardback

Main Details

Title Peter Fraser
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Martin Clark
Edited by Sara Matson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 272,Width 318
Category/GenreIndividual photographers
ISBN/Barcode 9781849761499
ClassificationsDewey:770.92
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Tate Publishing
Imprint Tate Publishing
Publication Date 26 January 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Peter Fraser has been at the forefront of contemporary photography since the early 1980s. Much of his work involves an almost obsessive focus on the stuff of the world, the matter and materials that he finds in the everyday. The objects and situations Fraser chooses to photograph could be read as portals onto another world, openings onto stories and histories, even other civilizations, which he presents as 'found' still lives -humble subjects, which, through his camera lens reveal something more universal and profound. Born in Cardiff in 1953, Fraser graduated in photography from Manchester Polytechnic University in 1976. In 1982 Fraser began working with a Plaubel Makina camera, which led to an exhibition with William Eggleston at the Arnolfini, Bristol, in 1984. Fraser's previous books include Two Blue Buckets(1988), Deep Blue(1997), and Lost for Words(2010). In 2002 the Photographers' gallery, London, staged a twenty-year survey of Fraser's work, and in 2004 he was shortlisted for the Citibank Photography Prize. This full colour illustrated monograph considers the whole of Fraser's career to date, and features an extended essay by writer and David Chandler, Professor of Photography at Plymouth University.