Martin Parr

Martin Parr was born in Epson and studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970- 1973. He has been working on a number of projects since that time, in 1994 he became a full member of magnum photographic corporation.

He's significant to my possible project because a lot of his photographs comment on society and document the iconic Britain that we know and love. The majority of his photographs document the classic slightly cliche British holiday as it were; so his subjects usually include some type of sea side symbol whether its lobster like women sitting in deckchairs, or young children eating their first 99 flake. A lot of his more interesting images show the contrast and comparrisons between old and new. He usually uses some kind of visual signifier to portray this contrast for example aging and young people, people or even manerisms. These images encapture the spirit and love for Britain and Parr's more iconic and trademark images sum up the tradional British holiday that almost every person can relate too if they look back to their childhood.

Martin Parr's images have a sence of familiarity too them even if the viewer of the image hasnt seen them before because his images enclose so many cliches, although they seem familure they do have a sence of repeatability too because they can be apreciated from so many different angles.

Below are two examples of his work: