Camera Work (Revised Edition): 35 photographs by John Fraser

John Fraser was born in North London in 1928, went to a provincial grammar school, won a scholarship to Balliol College, has degrees in English from Oxford and the University of Minnesota, and taught for thirty years at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He was married to the artist Carol Hoorn Fraser (1930–1991). His widely reviewed Violence in the Arts (1974) and two other print books were published by Cambridge University Press. His major article “Atget and the City” was reprinted in Studio International. He has a large website, www.jottings.ca, and has authored or co-authored a number of eBooks. He started carrying a camera and doing darkroom work in Minneapolis in the 1950s, with occasional tips from Jerome Liebling, Allen Downs, and Robert Eugene Wilcox. He always used the workhorse 50mm lens, black-and-white film, and available light. Several of his slim photocopy Throwaway Books are in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. He put away his camera in 2000.