The Birthday Party by Vee Speers
This series of portraits of children preparing to attend an imaginary birthday party explore what characters might be created if role-play is pushed to imaginative extremes. The children are placed in front of the same white wall and gaze into the lens of the camera, performing within a strictly composed frame. They reveal very little of themselves and yet this makes the portraits that much more magnetic. The childlike game of dressing up and costume reinforces the surreal tone of the series - exposing a side to childhood which is removed from cliche and a perfect world.
Bright, Susan: - Susan Bright is a curator and writer. She has authored numerous books including Art Photography Now (Aperture, 2005), Face of Fashion (Aperture, 2007), How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007: coauthored with Val Williams), Auto Focus (2010), and Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood (2013). She co-curated How We Are: Photographing Britain (2007), which was the first major exhibition of British photography at Tate. The exhibition of Home Truths (Photographers' Gallery and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago) was named one of the top exhibitions of 2013/2014 by the Guardian and the Chicago Tribune. She currently lives in Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781904587644 |
| ISBN 10 | 190458764X |
| Title | The Birthday Party |
| Author | Vee Speers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Dewi Lewis Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-10-02 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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