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Ich halte es f\u00fcr eine sehr gute Zeit, sich nochmal mit Martin Parrs Werk Last Resort<\/i> (1983-1985) auseinander zu setzen. N\u00e4mlich diese Zeit, in der sich Englands Sehnsucht zur\u00fcck in eine nie da gewesenen Vergangenheit politisch Bahn bricht: Die Sehnsucht nach einer Idylle, wie sie Tolkien im Kleinen Hobbit<\/i> imaginierte, und in der – meiner Meinung nach ein zentrales Detail – alle Bewohner der Insel wei\u00df waren. Was Parr damals in den 80ern n\u00e4mlich machte, war unter anderem ein (fast erbarmungslos) ungesch\u00f6ntes Portr\u00e4t einer wei\u00dfen Wirklichkeit – \u00fcber das Verh\u00e4ltnis zwischen Fotograf und Motiv l\u00e4sst sich hier besonders gut diskutieren. There is no little irony in the fact that the attitude he supposedly displayed towards his \u2018working-class\u2019 subjects seems to appear more strongly when photographing his own<\/i> class, even as those distinctions began to be a lot less clear-cut. More broadly though, he never would again so unselfconsciously risk exposing himself to the accusation of exploiting his subjects in the way he was thought to be doing here. From then on, the \u2018exploitation\u2019 would be strictly on his terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Vielleicht haben mich Martin Parrs Bilder ja deshalb von Anfang an angezogen: Weil sie zeigten, was auch ich (lower middle class<\/i>) w\u00e4hrend meines Studienjahrs in Swansea, Wales, 1991\/1992 noch sah – inklusive all der Lebendigkeit und Groteske. Und was ich mangelns Fertigkeiten nie h\u00e4tte auf Fotos festhalten k\u00f6nnen.<\/p>\n Margaret Thatcher\u2019s infamous statement about there being \u2018no such thing\u2019 as society is, of course, well known. Less often cited, however, is how she continued, saying that, in its place there were \u201cindividual men and women and families.\u201d Society, then, is not the aggregate of efforts and responsibilities held in common, what people share, but everyone merely scrabbling for their own small advantage, clinging to the illusion that it can, in fact, be gained, and Parr finds the world that has been created \u2013 emphatically not<\/i> just described \u2013 by this attitude; traditional bonds wrenched apart by changes that benefited the few and left the many to survive as best they could, while the infrastructure that once sustained them is let run-down and left to rot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Wegen am Ende abgeschnittenen Arbeitstags keine Zeit f\u00fcr morgentliches Langhanteltraining im Studio, statt dessen fr\u00fch aufgestanden und vom Fernsehen eine halbe Stunde core exercises geturnt – mit meinem Fokus auf Laufen, Schwimmen, Aerobic bef\u00fcrchte ich immer, meine Bauchmuskulatur zu vernachl\u00e4ssigen. (Was ich tats\u00e4chlich vernachl\u00e4ssige, ist Beweglichkeit.) Nach Feierabend endlich mal wieder zur Fu\u00dfpflege – zwei […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38266,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251\/revisions\/38266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorspeisenplatte.de\/speisen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“End of the Pier: Martin Parr in New Brighton”.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"