The Birthday Party - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190458764X ISBN 13: 9781904587644

Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2009

"The beautifully simple, desaturated yet crisp, photographs of children...and it's a clean book with a proper size for the images, giving them the space they deserve."—PhotoInduced

The portraits in this collection are theatrical, with the children in “fancy dress,” yet a sense of unease pervades—this is an anarchistic, even surreal, take on childhood and play. Vee Speers exposes a side of childhood that is neither carefree nor cliched, and through the children she projects a range of emotions and definitions that are part of our imperfect adult world.

Launched at Paris Photo, Speers’ work is avidly collected and is selling out in galleries in both Europe and the United States.

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About the Author:

For the past fifteen years, Vee Speers has been based in Paris, working in fashion, photojournalism, and fine art photography. Widely exhibited throughout Europe, the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and Australia, her work has also been seen in publications including The Sunday Times, Harpers+Queen, GQ, Arena, and Esquire Susan Bright is an independent curator and writer on photography. Author of the highly successful book 'Art Photography Now' (Thames & Hudson, 2006), she has worked with the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain. Recent curatorial projects include Face of Fashion for the National Portrait Gallery, London, and 'How We Are: Photographing Britain' (co-curated with Val Williams) for Tate Britain, London.

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