Martin Parr Quotes About Reality

• With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Reality, Giving

• Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate. Most of the photographs in your paper, unless they are hard news, are lies. Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality... Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Fashion, Lying

• We are drowning in images. Photography is used as a propaganda tool, which serves to sell products and ideas. I use the same approach to show aspects of reality.

  Martin Parr

  Fotografía, Realidad, Ideas

• The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

  Martin Parr

  Reality, Tourism, Different

• Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

  Martin Parr

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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