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Peter Fraser

This new monograph published to coincide with a survey exhibition at Tate, St Ives, is the largest comprehensive study of a photographer who has been at the forefront of developments in British and international photography since 1983.

Chandler’s text is intended as a substantial appraisal of Fraser’s work in order to build an account of his entire career. The text is based on new research and a series of extended interviews with the artist that took place between February and May 2012. Proceeding from this research, all of Fraser’s major bodies of work are critically re-evaluated and are set within an historical and theoretical framework of photographic and art traditions nationally and internationally. The research investigates the central role of memory and the unconscious across Fraser’s entire body of work, to look specifically at the connections between his work and family history; a detailed account of the evolution of his colour photography; and the influence of the American photographer William Eggleston on his work. Its purpose is to fully analyse and acknowledge Fraser’s key role in British photography since the early 1980s.