Martin Parr - Common Sense
What distnguishes a Martin Parr photograph?
- The technical aspects are that in Parr's common sense series he uses a macro lens for taking his image. His images are also very saturated now, developed from his black and white images.
- A cultural aspect is how Martin Parr try's to capture the times we live in through photography as a documentary photographer which has always been his intention, as well as how he 'exploits reality of place and a mythology of a place.'
- Parr's subject matter is the same consumerism, britishness and trates of nationality. His photographs show a pessimistic view of the world, avoiding faces and focused on more everyday things overtime. With his subjects having become conceptual his style never breaches of absurd.
What aspects of his personality influences his image making?
- His obsession with collecting things, his collection of objects always had photographic images on them
- He has a tunnel vision therefore he sees what he wants to see
- He finds everyday things exciting (mundane)
- He thinks that surreal is important, it helps make us notice what we would previously ignore.
- With photographs he collects ideas and puts them together to make sense of the world.
After looking at Martin Parr's work we then looked at David Moriyama and saw how his work completely differs. Moriyama uses a compact camera and has been doing so over the past decade not wanting to stand out in the crowd he finds that this use is less intimidating. Along with his tilted photographs, his images are black and white and grainy, he is more about the impression the image has than the quality of it. His bye bye photography book shows his images bursting out of the page, almost as if once you open it you are consumed by his photographs.
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