How does the British soul, when the Brexit? The photographer Martin Parr has photographed portraits of his countrymen, now in the National Portrait Gallery in London: “Only Human” (“human”).
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
After the battle
The legendary Magdalene May Ball is over, the battle on the dance floor beat. This man indulges in with the use of various pillows, a sleep. The photographer Martin Parr shows the British just as they are – in this case, deeply exhausted and dreaming.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
British from the top
For the views of his British compatriots Parr chose the bird’s-eye view. His photography shows British sun-worshippers on the beach of Sorrento, Italy. Towels and clothes of the crowded sun-worshippers, a contrast, provide rich play of color with the black Sand.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
All snaps, no cheers
It’s all a matter of perspective: Here, the professional photographer Martin Parr takes on the angle of view of Queen Elizabeth II. an unusual point of view: What you see in front of you, is an excited knipsendes people, which is apparently only held by the state body. No one rejoices.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
Dance and colors
Seemingly light as a feather, these Indian Bhangra dancers are dancing by a meeting room in Edinburgh, Scotland. Also in this photo, the Parr, does not arrange his photos usually plays, a play of color between the actors, and with a quiet Background. Martin Parr (Jg. 1952) is one of the UK’s leading documentary photographers.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
So close and yet so far
Summer in Cornwall on the English coast, bath time! However, children and adults stare at the sea just to sit in, skeptical. Only the Red Flag moves, and thus moves the cool waters off in the unreachable distance. Parr photo, what a paradox the world can be. His photos, he says, are valued outside the UK.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
Portrait of a dog and a hat
This sun worshipper in the more Mature age scanned Parr on a beach in France. Subtle Title: “Nice, France”. The image is typical of the Magnum photographers. It is one of its special topics: The aging man. Parr himself is 66 years old. The photo exhibition is until 27. May 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Title of the Show: “Only Human: Martin Parr”.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
After the battle
The legendary Magdalene May Ball is over, the battle on the dance floor beat. This man indulges in with the use of various pillows, a sleep. The photographer Martin Parr shows the British just as they are – in this case, deeply exhausted and dreaming.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
British from the top
For the views of his British compatriots Parr chose the bird’s-eye view. His photography shows British sun-worshippers on the beach of Sorrento, Italy. Towels and clothes of the crowded sun-worshippers, a contrast, provide rich play of color with the black Sand.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
All snaps, no cheers
It’s all a matter of perspective: Here, the professional photographer Martin Parr takes on the angle of view of Queen Elizabeth II. an unusual point of view: What you see in front of you, is an excited knipsendes people, which is apparently only held by the state body. No one rejoices.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
Dance and colors
Seemingly light as a feather, these Indian Bhangra dancers are dancing by a meeting room in Edinburgh, Scotland. Also in this photo, the Parr, does not arrange his photos usually plays, a play of color between the actors, and with a quiet Background. Martin Parr (Jg. 1952) is one of the UK’s leading documentary photographers.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
So close and yet so far
Summer in Cornwall on the English coast, bath time! However, children and adults stare at the sea just to sit in, skeptical. Only the Red Flag moves, and thus moves the cool waters off in the unreachable distance. Parr photo, what a paradox the world can be. His photos, he says, are valued outside the UK.
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Martin Parr: A Briton in the time of Brexit
Portrait of a dog and a hat
This sun worshipper in the more Mature age scanned Parr on a beach in France. Subtle Title: “Nice, France”. The image is typical of the Magnum photographers. It is one of its special topics: The aging man. Parr himself is 66 years old. The photo exhibition is until 27. May 2019 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Title of the Show: “Only Human: Martin Parr”.
Euphoric night-owls, night falls, bathing in the lake or left out partying migrants – the 66-year-old Parr, the British photographed like non, Yes, almost relentlessly.
This is probably why he is not at home just friends: In France and Germany, he revealed once the weekly newspaper “die Zeit”, he was much better known and more successful. The reason: “In both countries, a certain amount of Schadenfreude about how England is to see my pictures.”
Martin Parr in the football stadium search on subject
These accompany the Brexit: Magnum photographer Martin Parr has banned volatile snapshots on the plate. Here, the queue winds in front of an ice cream truck in the middle of the bald beach, since dancing young gay almost naked in a men’s club.
Or a bald man dipped the nose fully of pleasure in the flower of a dogrose. It iron are, but always loving glances on the habits and oddities of his countrymen.
Documentary of British everyday culture
Many do not feel its subtle provoking Work, the artist makes itself blatant stereotypes of his countrymen. More: Parr captures the Ugly, which will be retouched.
Therefore, his Work is also of exceptional photo art. Excesses of mass tourism, the Age and tongue-in-cheek portraits of “ordinary” people appear in his Works as well. Society of critical Portraits snob-wing representatives of the nobility and of the British “Upper Class” are his specialty. Parr is considered to be profiled esters documentary of British everyday culture.
Without Hood: Martin Parr
Martin Parr, born in 1952, studied in the early 1970s, photography in Manchester and was one of a group of British documentary photographers, the Genre revolution, while in Germany the düsseldorf school, the photographer couple Bernd and Hilla Becher, and the photography art market was capable of.
The house of art in Munich was dedicated to Parr in 2008, a major solo show. For many years the Englishman for the famous Magnum photo Agency works. The exhibition “Only Human” in London’s National Portrait Gallery runs until 27. May 2019.