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Peter Peryer, Photographer

Simpson, Peter

Peryer is one of New Zealand's leading contemporary photographers. He is constantly refining his practice, notably with his embrace of digital photography from 1998 and increasing interest in colour. This book is a selection of 80 photographs, the largest body of Peryer's work yet assembled. A wide-ranging introduction by Peter Simpson, and an illustrated autobiographical essay by Peryer are included. Interested in doubles, pattern and repetition, problems of scale, the surreal and the grotesque, Peryer's work most often focuses on the 'thingness' of his subjects and objects. Here are whitebait, shells, two goats, a Meccano bus, a 'sand shark', planes and a windsock, as well as a Moeraki boulder, the trig on Rangitoto and the Alexandra clock. Rich in lovingly examined bits and pieces, and prompting a viewer always to think harder about their significance, this book is a quirky and intimate guide to Peryerland.

Finalist in the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Illustrative category.

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