Nick Stone

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73 Parr said his brightly coloured, closely observed pictures of British life were ‘disguised as entertainment’ but they became hugely popular Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, has died aged 73. He had been diagnosed with cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr’s images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid colour and with more than a dash of humour. His iconic 1986 photobook The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton captured working-class holidaymakers in the Wirral, Liverpool and helped mark a sea change in British documentary photography, from the gritty, black and white style of the past towards a cheekier and more colourful style. Continue reading...

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73

To say Martin Parr has been an influence on how I see and record would be a massive understatement. He leaves a long long shadow.

Eliot?

Or:

I was invested in mother-earth, the crypt of roots and endings. Child’s-play. I abode there, bided my time: where the mole

shouldered the clogged wheel, his gold solidus; where dry-dust badgers thronged the Roman flues, the long-unlooked-for mansions of our tribe.

And that will be England gone,
The shadows, the meadows, the lanes,
The guildhalls, the carved choirs.
There’ll be books; it will linger on
In galleries; but all that remains
For us will be concrete and tyres.

Especially chopping the tomatoes.

That’s how I look when I do a salsa.

Very much. I just haven’t managed to watch it yet.

The Brits?

I have plans but no time, and when I have any time no energy at the moment.

a group of people standing on top of chimneys with the letter h in the middle ALT: a group of people standing on top of chimneys with the letter h in the middle

I was born in London guv.

Butthole Surfers is up there. So to speak.

Why make it worse for yourself.

A Hurricane nose down in either a huge pile of crap or the raised earth around a bomb crater that it accidentally taxied into. I'll let you guess which is more likely, not least as it would have had to be a very big Hurricane to drop that amount.

Not many people know this, but Hawker Hurricanes sniff each other's droppings to assess fitness, dominance and breeding condition...

That’s just coming from Loddon.

Did that not affect Boomers and everyone before plus Millennials too. It was completely banned in petrol in 2000 in the UK. Sort of proves my point.

Same with Gen X. Drives me insane watching all the we were latchkey kids, we woz ignored, we drank from puddles, never cross Gen Xer horseshit. We live in a continuum, not a series of steps.

YouTube video by soleil44 Taxi - What's New In Your Life, Latka?

In 1980, this made me laugh. Still works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvY...

I guess nobody really looks at planning or reads council minutes unless it's a huge issue (like Anglia Square for instance). New design is horrid, why we can't just build stuff that lasts and stop using powder coated nonsense that rusts and glass that gets busted is beyond me.

The new shelter isn't even planned to go where that one is. It's a bit odd that it''s taken three months for the local community to suddenly wake up to it though.

I’m his age, and well remember racist and misogynistic bullies like him at school. I don’t think it was peculiar to our generation, it’s just within the next 10 years generally most people like that had decided it was better to keep your mouth shut. Unfortunately that era seems to have closed again.

Plus acrobat seems to update about every four hours.

Retrain as a plumber.

It's already happening, same for AJ.

I've had clients send me things they've designed in Canva instead of using me. Right ho. But if you want that printed you'd better not use a low res gif in the background, maybe add some bleed and corner marks, and possibly design it, ideally using the brand guidelines I slaved over.

I’ve said this before on here. It’s nearly impossible to use anything else as I’m industry based with files stretching back 25+ years. Ditching Quark was difficult enough.

I’m so fed up with the constant Adobe nagging. ‘Want me to use Firefly to make that bit up, this is long, how about I summarise it for you’. Constant in three of the areas I use. Yet they can’t make it load a font I’ve forgotten from 5 years ago. Just make it work properly, it’s what I pay for.

I know you shouldn’t take the piss out of people’s appearance, but he’s got glasses from 1978, a shirt and tie with a round neck pullover which makes him look like a student geography teacher, and a sports jacket from C&A in 1983. And no chin.

I struggled to find words for it, and there we are.

Bet he grew that beard as chin augmentation. Standard master race tactic to appear normal.