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Subtle photographs by Martin Parr: “The British in times of the Brexit”

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”).



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.

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