“l’m creating entertainment, which has a serious message if you want to read into it, but I don’t expect to change anyone’s mind – l’m just showing them what they think they may know already.” – Martin Parr   Dorset, England, 2022 The absurdity, fun and excesses of contemporary life run like through Martin Parr’s (23 May 1952 – 6 December 2025) photographs like words through a stick of rock. Parr’s pictures embrace sharp wit and deadpan humour to deliver a critical but non-judgemental look at our times. We see tourists on cruise ships – and what use a cruise if you’r not a boozer? – and more of them taking selfies in beautiful places and in once beautiful places now turned into theme parks. Instead of losing ourselves as we wonder though unknown cities and towns, we seek the familiar by making our faces the focus of every scene and shopping.   Tokyo, Japan, 1998 New York, 1999 Glasgow, Scotland, 1999 Las Vegas, 2000 Mumbai, India, 2018 Cozumel, Mexico, 2002 Venice, 2005 Sorrento, 2014 Jaipur, India USA. California. Venice Beach. From ‘Common Sense’. 1998. Ocean Dome, Japan, 1996 Salford, 1986 Switzerland, 1997 Switzerland, 1994   Via: Jeu de Paume The post Entertain Us: Martin Parr’s Pictures of Global Humanity appeared first on Flashbak.

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  Bright lights, full skirts and deep shadow shape New York City in the 1950s. In New York City Never Sleeps, Peter Fetterman Gallery shows us the post-war city  glistening with life and grotesque figures”, with pictures from Bruce Davidson, Louis Stettner, Sabine Weiss and Louis Faurer, among others. These pictures were taken at a time when older photographers working then wanted to create pictures that looked like paintings but reality was coming up fast. NYC was a place bathed in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘revolutions of light”, a city of “light dividing like pearls – forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.” New York City Never Sleeps is at NYC’s Peter Fetterman Gallery.   Martin Elkort, Grabbing The Brass Ring, 1950 Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) Union Square from Ohrbach’s Window, New York, N.Y., 1948-50 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Times Square at Night, New York, 1952 What made it worse, it was so quiet and lonesome out, even though it was Saturday night. I didn’t see hardly anybody on the street. Now and then you just saw a man and a girl crossing a street, with their arms around each other’s waists and all, or a bunch of hoodlumy-looking guys and their dates, all of them laughing like hyenas at something you could bet wasn’t funny. New York’s terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed. – JD Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye   Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) Union Square from Ohrbach’s Window, New York, N.Y., 1948-50 Sabine Weiss, New York Ted Croner 1922-2005 Central Park South, 1948 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Elbowing Out of Town, News Stand, New York, 1954 Bruce Davidson 1933 Brooklyn Gang (couple kissing in the back seat of a car), 1959 Louis Stettner 1922-2016 Six Lights, Penn Station, 1958 Louis Faurer (United States, 1916-2001) New York, NY (Tulip Cab Corp), 1950 Lead Image: Sabine Weiss 1924-2021 Times Square, 1955. The post New York City Never Sleeps – 1950s appeared first on Flashbak.