Contact Sheet Print: Benidorm Spain, 1997 Framing:Custom Black Frame

Contact Sheet Print: Benidorm Spain, 1997 Framing:Custom Black FrameMartin Parr has always found inspiration on beaches. Ever since his days as a photography student at Manchester Polytechnic in the 1970s, when he would make frequent trips to the seaside resort of Blackpool to take pictures, Parr has seen the beach as a playground for experimentation. More than any other beach location, Benidorm the vast, tourist strewn seaside resort on the eastern coast of Spain could be said to be Parrs favourite. He listed it as

particularly the work of Frederick Evans and Edwin Smith

and a BAFTA Award for her performance in Roman Holiday

three of the great artistic players of the 60’s—Andy Warhol with Edie Segwick and Chuck Wein—are photographed on a New York City sidewalk in 1965

which were otherwise cut off from the rest of society

nowhere is the pursuit of pleasure more nakedly apparent than on the beach

The family had been traveling for 16 days

In this iconic image

the endless being on display

I was moving all around him

The photographer documented the civil rights movement extensively and was a pioneer of socially conscious photography

From the grandly historic to the poignantly human

It’s perhaps unsurprising that Elliott Erwitt