Which reminds me of another personal dilemma. Back in the day I loved the work of that crop of documentary photographers of the late seventies and eighties that perhaps Martin Parr best represents. Basically and nearly always, the subject matter was the the poor and the working classes (for want of a better word).
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came across this exhibition and the last picture in this link got me thinking. The exhibition blurb talks about a satirical look at Scotland. But it took me back to his breakthrough work on Merseyside, "The Last Resort". Looking with older eyes, I cannot help feeling that we have an articulate middle class guy looking down his nose at the antics and lack of "class" of the poorest and least articulate part of our society. As much as I hate the cant and puritanism of what is fashionably called "woke", I really think the last picture in my link is a good old case of "fat shaming" . How much do Magnum charge for a copy of this print? Is the exhibition a nice bit of voyeurism for the culturally educated who are the main customers of these exhibitions?
Maybe I am wrong.