‘Two Blue Buckets’ published by Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, England, 1988; Text by Rupert Martin, afterward by Maureen Paley 74pp; 29 colour plates; ISBN: 0948797118
Out of print.
‘….Above all, Peter Fraser learnt that colour photography could offer a profound insight not just into the appearances and coincidences of everyday life, but into the spiritual dimension which underlies those appearances. In this sense he was rediscovering an inherently European way of seeing and thinking, and a metaphysical attitude to the physical world that can be found in the painting of Carpaccio, Vermeer and de Chirico, as well in the photographs of Atget and Bill Brandt. In the work of these artists, people and objects are depicted with clarity and composure, so that they become intensely tangible, instinct with life and suffused by light. This is not connected with the artifice of surrealism, with it’s absurd juxtapositions, nor with the idiom of photographic intervention and manipulation, but with the idea of the purity and self-sufficiency of the image, representing and transcending its time and place.’
From Rupert Martin’s text.
This book won the ‘Bill Brandt Award’ in 1988 hosted by The Photographer’s Gallery, London. This Award still hosted by The Photographer’s Gallery, subsequently became the Citibank International Photography Award, and later, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.