Butlin's 1972

r/t: 2 min, 3 sec.

Martin Parr and I studied at Manchester Poly and, in the summer of 1972, we worked as "walkie" photographers at Butlin’s Filey. This film, by Emma Shaw of the National Media Museum, tells how some pictures I took there were recently "discovered".
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Inspirations: 3 of 10 - Book. 1981. Camera Lucida, reflections on photogaphy. After years of cool (dispassionate?) analysis Barthes comes across a photograph of his mother as a child, the "winter garden photograph". He lets his feelings in and suddenly the ideas start bouncing off the page: "I had discovered this photograph by moving back through Time? I worked back through a life, not my own, but the life of someone I love. Starting from her latest image, taken the summer before her death (so tired, so noble, sitting in front of the door of our house, surrounded by my friends), I arrived, traversing three quarters of a century, at the image of a child: I stare intensely at the Sovereign Good of childhood, of the mother, of the mother-as-child. Of course I was then losing her twice over, in her final fatigue and in her first photograph, for me the last; but it was also at this moment that everything turned around and I discovered her as unto herself. "