Peter Fraser, Two Blue Buckets. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 1988. First edition. Paperback, 74 pp. 29 color plates. 23,7 x 26,5 cm.
First edition paperback of Peter Fraser's seminal book Two Blue Buckets
Peter Fraser's Two Blue Buckets reexamines the mundane through a contemplative lens, capturing everyday objects like blue buckets and deflated balloons with a quiet, almost forensic attention. Fraser's work blurs the lines between art photography, documentary, and conceptualism, showing the beauty in ordinary scenes. Fraser was inspired by early influences like Edward Weston and Paul Strand, but it was an encounter with William Eggleston's work in 1983 that led him to explore the interpenetration of the divine and the mundane. He met Eggleston in 1983, eventually flying to Memphis in 1984 to spend seven weeks shadowing Eggleston, which had a significant impact on his artistic journey.
Two Blue Buckets is a precursor to his later work, marked by an undercurrent of melancholy and a unique mastery of atmosphere and suggestion.
There is a 2017 reprint. But why buy the reprint if you can have a peachy, well-preserved first edition original?
Content
- Rupert Martin, 'Peter Fraser Photographs 1983-1986'
- 'In Close-Up'
- 'The Blue and the Sky'
- 12 Day Journey
- Everyday Icons
- The Valleys Project
- Rupert Martin, 'A New Iconography' (1988)
- Towards an Absolute Zero
- Maureen O'Paley, Peter Fraser, 'Afterword' (1988)
- Plates
- Notes
- Biography
Condition
A near fine copy of this sought-after book.