Photograph: Martin ParrParr’s shift from black and white to colour in the mid-1980s exaggerates and dramatises a shift that was of course more gradual and complex. Photograph: Martin ParrThe transformation of Ireland in the 1990s can be seen in some ways as a repatriation of this desire. Irishness has always been to some extent a performance, whether of piety or of revelry, of sophistication or of simplicity – even, in Parr’s images of Troubles tourism, of tragedy. Photograph: Martin ParrIt continues to be so even in a globalised world of flat whites and yoga sessions. Martin Parr’s From the Pope to a Flat White: Ireland 1979-2019 is published by Damiani.

Source: The Irish Times October 24, 2020 03:56 UTC