Scarecrow 37

Through gruelling weather

presents comprehensive overview of Parr’s formulative black and white work

of this particular moment

further reinforcing the tree as a subject for photography

but in a society exposed to a creeping but violent pressure that

traumatic and resilience and survival instinct resonating

A few months later

Those same instructions regarding composition and approach were likely given to other uncredited photographers who contributed it an attempt to lend the project a typological uniformity

Communists

The photographs were taken between 1970 and 1984

bristolphotofestival

which has been in print ever since