Peter Dazeley

Peter Dazeley, known as Dazeley, was born in West Kensington, London, England. He is an award-winning photographer (see photographic career) *http://www.rps.org/portfolio/338--Dazeley, living and working in London. Known for his fine art, advertising, anamorphic and nude photography.

Solarised Platinum Man Photography Dazeley

Biography

Dazeley, son of William and Freda Dazeley MBE, is dyslexic and left school at 15 without formal qualifications. He is married and has one daughter and lives at Coombe Hill in Surrey, England.

Photographic career

Dazeley studied photography at Holland Park Comprehensive (known as the Socialist Eton) and started assisting the photographer Peter Sowerby at Essex West Studios off Fleet Street, London in 1963. His work has won numerous awards from organisations across the world, most notably the Association of Photographers, the Royal Photographic Society in the UK, EPICA in France, Applied Arts Magazine in Canada and Communication Arts magazine www.commarts.com and Kelly in the USA. Dazeley is currently working on several projects including X-ray, flowers, pregnant women, anamorphic nude and solarisation (Sabattier effect) photography, out of his own studio complex in Chelsea, London.

Dazeley became a member of the Association of Photographers in 1977 and became a life member in 1984 and is currently a member of the DACS Creator's Council

Style

He has pioneered for use in advertising photography many imaging techniques that have become the norm in the commercial world , including the use of limited depth of field, the out of focus anamorphic figures as used in the Assume Nothing Campaign,Terrence Higgins Trust see image below, and he was the first photographer to use x-ray for artistic purposes .

Terrence Higgins Trust photography:Dazeley

Dazeley’s monochrome work is all produced as limited edition platinum prints taking photography back to its origins. He works in close collaboration with a team of specialist printers at 31 Studios, Gloucester, England.[1]

Acclaim

Modern art collector Kay Hartenstein Saatchi http://www.wmagazine.com/artdesign/2007/11/kay_saatchi in the foreword to 21st century platinum (N.p.: Rawkus, 2003) ‘We try and take what is real to its surreal being. With the velvety tones of platinum printing the fine art photographer Dazeley does just this, displaying an affinity with the innovations of that arch surrealist Man Ray.’

21st Century Platinum Exhibition Catalogue

Andrew Coningsby of the Coningsby Gallery http://www.coningsbygallery.com/ ‘Most photographic cognoscenti agree that he is one of the most innovative photographers of the moment.’Quoted at Private View of 21st Century Platinum exhibition July 2003

Gavin Blyth of Image Magazine http://hub.the-aop.org/News_archive/p2_articleid/4 ‘Many of the images have a grotesque beauty which is strangely compelling. In his anamorphic work, http://www.dazeleyfineart.com/ the lens stretches and morphs the human form creating an effect similar to Giacometti's famous elongated sculptures. The detail and tonal range achieved in the images is quite remarkable and telegraphs their fine art credentials.' Image magazine July 2003

Books

21st Century Platinum.Rawkus, ISBN 0954513800.
Cover of One Chance my Life and Rugby by Josh Lewsey Virgin Books London, 2009 ISBN 9781905264537
Cover of Silverfin by Charlie Higson Puffin London, ISBN 0141318597
The Complete Woman Golfer. (With text by Vivien Saunders) London: Hutchinson, ISBN 0091240905
Cliff Thorburn's Snooker Skills. (With text by Cliff Thorburn, edited by Peter Arnold.) London: Hamlyn, ISBN 0600552101.
Platinum Prints 1988-2007 by 31 Studio
Nudes Index 1
Nudes Index X1 ISBN 3936761132
Graphis Photo ISBN 3857092947
Naked Women, Quarto Books ISBN 1560253363
Into the Light (Photographic Printing out of the Darkroom) by Coriander, 31 Studio, Permaprint and Stoneman Graphics
Cover of High Flyer by John Francome, Headline Press, ISBN-13: 978-0747218968
Wicked World by Benjamin Zephaniah, Cover Portrait of the author, PuffinLondon, ISBN 0-14-130683-1

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