tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608862971657438280.post1883245130718797282..comments2023-09-17T14:19:39.504+01:00Comments on Manchester Photography: Martin Parr's British Cities.mark pagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07052975033689540251noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608862971657438280.post-46555944257988530782008-05-19T17:36:00.000+01:002008-05-19T17:36:00.000+01:00Mishka, Longtime no hear! How you doing! I've been...Mishka,<BR/> Longtime no hear! How you doing! I've been biting my tongue a bit on this one to tell the truth, but f**k it I'll post about it tomorrow when I've had more time to look at the pictures. What is interesting is that I know one of the portrait subjects as well...........mark pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07052975033689540251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8608862971657438280.post-83932871576987405172008-05-19T15:46:00.000+01:002008-05-19T15:46:00.000+01:00Mark, where's the critique of Parr's work on Manch...Mark, where's the critique of Parr's work on Manchester? I thought it was awful. I too looked forward to seeing it and he seemed to be way off with his vision. There was nothing to the images, nothing revealed, little humour, cynicism or incisiveness that characterizes much of his work. I keep going back to the supplement trying to work out why it's so awful. For a start, it's so lazy. There's so little to go off. The racquet club? What kind of a subject was that to pick? Or the guy reading a book along the canal? These images are so mediocre they would sit comfortably on Flickr, not in a well-paid Guardian commission that's trumpeted as something we should all be keenly waiting for or investing in a boxed set. I'm looking at these images wondering if Parr's lost the plot.<BR/><BR/>Who's to blame? The picture editor who put it together or Parr himself? With Parr's reputation, I doubt it's the former.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com