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April 27, 2009
Peter Peryer is an established contemporary New Zealand photographer, who has been working since the early 1970s and has recently published a monograph. His roots lie in Photo-Forum workshop with Peryer producing the dark, brooding images of that characterised his1975 Mars Hotel folio.
Peter Peryer, dog, 1976, silver gelatin print
There is a simplicity to Peryer’s photographic approach, verging on the snapshot aesthetic, but the photographs express a sense of anxiety and dislocation and have been likened to film stills.
Second Nature was an exhibition that was published in1995.
Peter Peryer, Dead Steer, 1987, silver gelatin print
The advertising posters for the show, which were all around the city, featured the above photograph and expressed a sense of surreal estrangement. There was a tendency for the latter work to become more abstract:
Peter Peryer, Swiss Roll, 1983, silver gelatin print
Peter Peryer Photographer presents the last two decades of work and is the first major publication to include Peryer’s colour photographs, integrating them with his 1990s black and white images and includes the shift from analogue to digital photography.
James at Photography Matters draws attention to the simplicity of Peryer’s style of photography:
The sophistication of Peryer’s photography lies in its apparent simplicity—we know What we are being shown, but now, Why?—and this is one of the reasons his images stay with us, reside in our subconscious and resonate, while others’ photos are not so well retained.
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