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The Birthday Party
Vee Speers

The Birthday Party, Vee Speers

The Birthday Party, Vee SpeersThe Birthday Party
Vee Speers
Dewi Lewis Publishing
English

Text by Susan Bright.

 

Hardback
96 pages
330 x 272 mm
2008
ISBN 9781904587644

 

This is a series of portraits of children about to attend an imaginary birthday party. Inspired by her daughter’s birthday party Speers imagined what characters might be created if role play were 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 laid out frame. They reveal very little of themselves and yet this is what makes the portraits so magnetic. The childlike game of dressing up, of putting on costumes, reinforces the surreal tone of the series.
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About the Artist
Vee Speers is an Australian photographer based in Paris. After studying at the Queensland College of Art, she worked as a stills photographer for ABC television. Since moving to France in the early 1990s, Speers has worked in fashion, photojournalism, and is today an established fine-art photographer. Her work has appeared in many prestigious publications, and has been exhibited in London, Paris, Japan, Italy, Tunisia, and South America, as well as in her native country.
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About the Author
Susan Bright is a curator and writer based in Paris. She has curated exhibitions internationally at institutions including: Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, amongst others.
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About the Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing is a partnership owned and run by Caroline Warhurst and Dewi Lewis.Founded in 1994, its photography list has an international reputation and has included books by leading British and international photographers such as William Klein, Martin Parr, Simon Norfolk, Fay Godwin, Tom Wood, Sergio Larrain, Frank Horvat, John Blakemore, Paolo Pelegrin and Bruce Gilden. The aim of the company is to bring to the attention of a wider public, accessible but challenging contemporary photography by both established and lesser known practitioners. The company has a worldwide distribution network and is recognised as one of the leading photographic publishers in the world.
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