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13/6/2002

Peter Fraser and E J Bellocq

The Photographers' Gallery, London

Peter Fraser: "With each series of photographs I choose a different strategy to approach the same underlying preoccupation...". Susan Sontag about E J Bellocq: "So much about these pictures affirms current taste: the low-life material; the near mythic provenance (Storyville); the informal, anti-art look..".


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Peter Fraser and E J Bellocq: Storyville Portraits


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Peter Fraser

"With each series of photographs I choose a different strategy to approach the same underlying preoccupation, which is, essentially, trying to understand what the world around me is made of through the act of photographing it."

Over nearly twenty years, Peter Fraser has established himself as one of Britainís most influential photographers. One of the first to recognise and embrace the poetic possibilities of colour photography, Fraser has created an extraordinary body of work whilst looking, most often, at the most ordinary of things. From his earliest series, collected in his landmark monograph Two Blue Buckets (1988), through Ice and Water (1993) and Deep Blue (1997) to his most recent Material (2002), Fraser's work has been characterised by a sense of exploration that is at once patient and committed. Now, for the first time, this exhibition will bring Fraser's work together in one striking installation, allowing us the opportunity to appreciate more clearly this artist's intense unity of vision.

This exhibition is curated by Jeremy Millar, writer, and Director of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2003.

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E J Bellocq: Storyville Portraits

"So much about these pictures affirms current taste: the low-life material; the near mythic provenance (Storyville); the informal, anti-art look, which accords with the virtual anonymity of the photographer and the real anonymity of the sitters; their status as objets trouvés, and a gift from the past."
Susan Sontag

Bellocq - a figure surrounded by mystery and known only through anecdote - was a commercial photographer working in Storyville, New Orleans between 1895 and 1930. Only a few of his pictures survive and no known original prints are believed to exist. After his death 89 glass plate negatives - mostly of prostitutes - were discovered in his desk; many were broken or damaged and intentionally defaced, by, some believe, the artist's brother, a Roman Catholic priest, or by Bellocq himself to maintain the anonymity of the sitters. These photographs record a remarkable moment in history, during Storyville's most notorious epoch when prostitution was legalised in an attempt to confine it to the streets close to the French Quarter of New Orleans.

With thanks to Julie Saul Gallery, New York.

Image: A portrait by E J Bellocq

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