Photography Exhibition:
"Martin Parr shows how the lives of Mancunians have changed, but also reveals how there is continuity in how we live our lives".
Martin Parr studied at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970-73. The city, being so different from his childhood home in suburban Surrey, the city of Manchester sparked his curiosity about people's lives, what it is to live in a Northern, largely working class, and diverse city. This exhibition bring together a selection of Martin Parr's Manchester photographs, ranging from black and white images of June Street, Salford in 1972 and Yates Wine Lodges in 1982-3, to colour photos of people shopping in 1986 and 2008. The exhibition aims to show how the lives of Mancunians have changed, but also how there is continuity in how we live.
Example Photographs:
Photography Idea:
Based on feedback and research into this exhibition, it has been decided that imagery to be featured within the book should be taken on a film camera. Through this process, this would give the images a slightly grainy, dated colour effect, more representational of the time the town was developed. This also brings in ideas related to industry that the town is associated with in terms of its links to the Arts and Crafts movement through the process of using older technology and processes more fitting with developments of the time. However, this is a fairly temperamental/ experimental process, therefore if this does not work effectively, existing primary images could be manipulated/ edited to give them a similar dated look.
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