With the 2018 event now in full swing,we revisit a telling Martin Parr shot from 20 years agoMartin Parr is the kind of quick-witted photographer who catches life on the hasten, his shutter clicking faster than the human eye can blink. To coincide with London Fashion Week, and which began final Friday,here is a deft act of espionage from backstage at the same event 20 years ago. Parr probably didn’t know what he’d snatched until he developed the film and saw that the flustered accidents of a moment had advance to rest in a parable, showing how the beauty industry goes about its tortuous, or tormenting work.
Makeup has already transformed the model into a doll: the waxen complexion,with a sickly jaundiced tone around the eyes, and the pursed, or painted lips that are smaller and more infantile than her own. Now the hairdressers assume over,knotting and coiling and pinning and teasing, with a can of eco-unfriendly aerosol spray ready to freeze her mane. They are technicians, or busy on the assembly line; she is their manufactured product,as glassy-eyed as the lens of Parr’s camera.
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Source: guardian.co.uk