Photographers who specialise in British life?

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Could anyone help me, I am looking for some photographers who have photogrpahed British life, like Martin Parr

I am lookng for british things like the pubs,blackpool, margate, motorway service stations, people at garden centers, stately homes etc...

Anything like that, or allong those lines...

thanks for all the help.
 
thehitmen said:
Could anyone help me, I am looking for some photographers who have photogrpahed British life, like Martin Parr

I am lookng for british things like the pubs,blackpool, margate, motorway service stations, people at garden centers, stately homes etc...

Anything like that, or allong those lines...

thanks for all the help.
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Definitely Tom Hunter - he recently photographed the people of businesses in one street I believe in London - Hackney I think
 
thehitmen said:
That is fantastic!

Shows bri night life at its best
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My old lecturer did some on nightclubs and women and juxtaposed them with shots of the girls being uncomfortable. Her name is Moira Lovell.
 
There is actually a book about this subject. Its called 'How we are Photographing Britain.'
 
I really need educating. I looked at Tom Hunter's life and death in Hackney series and on the whole I just didn't get what is so good about it :( Now I know he is an acclaimed photographer so I am guessing the issue is me not his photographs. What am I missing though? Can someone please talk me through what makes it special?

http://www.tomhunter.org/html/tld_01.htm

I also looked at the Holly Street series and found it equally uninspiring. In fact I found the overriding urge to straighten a couple of the pictures.
 
wow - thanks for sharing Peter Dench. His photo's are AWESOME! I love the themes.
 
Don McCullin has done quite a lot of stuff in England, but most of the older work is pretty dark. His more recent work in 'Don McCullin in England' featured things like people at Ascot.

Depands what era you are looking for really. For 1950's - 70's, I'd recommend any of the 'young meteors' - John Bulmer, Denis Thorpe, Graham Finlayson, McCullin, etc
 
Musicman said:
Maciej is fantastic. I've been a fan for a long time. Maybe it helps that I was at University in Cardiff :)

Peter Dench has a fairly humorous take on British life.

Paul Russell operates in a similar vein, but rather gentler with his subjects. He's about to be published in a new Thames & Hudson book with the likes of Parr and Maciej.
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Maciej now runs the Third Floor Gallery in cardiff bay. They've got a John Bulmer exhibition on at the moment:
http://www.thirdfloorgallery.com/
 
Too many to mention, Nick Waplington (council estates), John Davies (Urban), Mark Power (Costal), Anna Fox (work place) and Paul Reas (consumerism) to name a few.
 
dubcat said:
I really need educating. I looked at Tom Hunter's life and death in Hackney series and on the whole I just didn't get what is so good about it :( Now I know he is an acclaimed photographer so I am guessing the issue is me not his photographs. What am I missing though? Can someone please talk me through what makes it special?

http://www.tomhunter.org/html/tld_01.htm

I also looked at the Holly Street series and found it equally uninspiring. In fact I found the overriding urge to straighten a couple of the pictures.
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You and me both mate :)
 
The Matt said:
Bill Brandt's "The British at home" series, maybe?
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If we're not just talking about living photographers, how about Bert Hardy? Especially his series taken round the Elephant & Castle in the 1940s.

He's one of the reasons I ever picked up a camera.
 
dubcat said:
I really need educating. I looked at Tom Hunter's life and death in Hackney series and on the whole I just didn't get what is so good about it :( Now I know he is an acclaimed photographer so I am guessing the issue is me not his photographs. What am I missing though? Can someone please talk me through what makes it special?

http://www.tomhunter.org/html/tld_01.htm

I also looked at the Holly Street series and found it equally uninspiring. In fact I found the overriding urge to straighten a couple of the pictures.
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Tom Hunter's stuff is interesting, to me, because of his use of repetition and the slightly unnerving sense I get when looking at the pictures, knowing that they're staged but that they are ambiguous in their message. There also seem to be quite a few layers of allusion to paintings etc. but I couldn't say that I have enough background in art history to pick many of those up.

It's similar sort of stuff to Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman I reckon.

This sort of stuff is incredibly difficult to get right technically, and I admire people who can nail it.

& yep, you could straighten it up, dunno if you'd like it any better... :)
 
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