LO1: Analysis of martin parr's work

This photograph is a snapshot of the reality of life in the beach. The fashion and filters were used very carefully to give out a 80s feel, it represents what people actually wear and act like. It almost reflects on how the British live in a way.


Questions I have for Martin Parr:

 What's the main part of the image does the photographer want the audience to look at? Did he like how the colour in the photo turned out? How did he decide upon this composition? Is it real or just models who were told to do stuff? Was he trying to say anything particular about the people in the photograph? And what's the story behind this photograph?

These are some of the crisis say about martin Parr's work

“His pictures brought something else...a sort of street theatre or in this case beach theatre." telegraph 24th august 2015.

"Parrs series of photography of holidaymakers at a rundown seaside resort drew some crisis, and he was accused of exploiting the working classes. It was probably unfair as he later moved on to take pictures of rich people with bad manicures and bacon rind in their teeth." gun Adrian 30th September 2013

Many photographers these days plan their photo, they Photoshop them and make them look like a completely different thing but martin Parr took live photos, he showed the reality of things that most photographers avoid "to get the best picture".  I love how he takes photos of something that people won’t really look at or photograph and make it into something beautiful such as that image. It speaks the truth, I think that was his brief - showing the reality of how people live.

Image analysis and meaning
 
Martin Parr thought carefully about the photography elements in this photo, he used a small aperture (large F stop) and a fat shutter speed to avoid over-exposure and used natural light as he took the photo in a summer’s day to also show shadows to make the picture more complete. For focus he made it sharp and clear with a little bit of blurring. The centre of interest in the picture is the two couple sitting on the chair and the woman pointing to achieve a much focused clean picture he would have used a small aperture to also create a deep depth of field. There isn't anything physical to frame the picture but the shot is immediately within the action without a sense of foreground, the framing of the photo is landscape orientation. Parr cropped the picture very dramatic to make the audience wonder whets going outside the picture and the people in the picture also never look at the camera which makes the audience more curious about the outside of the photo.






Genre and purpose

  Martins Parr's work has inspired me for my own identity photo-shoot, I want to show the reality of Sheffield through graffiti and fashion and make it look as natural as possible like what Martin Parr did with his photographs. 

Martin Parr's work could be used in museums to show people the reality which I think would attract more people because most photographers are normally edited to make them look as perfect and unrealistic as possible. They could also be used for advertisement.

Martin Parr's photographs fit the photo journalism genre because it shows how people actually live.