Paul Reas
Flogging a Dead Horse, Big Pit Mining Museum, 1993
Lightjet print
50.8 x 60.96 cms
20 x 24 ins
Series: 1. Flogging a Dead Horse (1989-93)
8957
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist
From the edition of 5 From the series Flogging a Dead Horse 1985-1993 A working colliery until 1982, the Big Pit Mining Museum is now a 'major' experience. Paul Reas...
From the edition of 5
From the series Flogging a Dead Horse 1985-1993
A working colliery until 1982, the Big Pit Mining Museum is now a 'major' experience.
Paul Reas is part of a pioneering generation of photographers who exposed and critiqued British class and culture in the 1980s and 90s. Reas' seminal body of work, I Can Help (1988)examines the impact of the consumer boom of the 1980s, which resulted in a proliferation of American-style shopping malls and the rise of the new middle class. Humorous and slightly caustic, Reas' images are a criticism of an emerging cultural façade epitomized by heritage industry sites, branding, and figurative cultural icons.
From the series Flogging a Dead Horse 1985-1993
A working colliery until 1982, the Big Pit Mining Museum is now a 'major' experience.
Paul Reas is part of a pioneering generation of photographers who exposed and critiqued British class and culture in the 1980s and 90s. Reas' seminal body of work, I Can Help (1988)examines the impact of the consumer boom of the 1980s, which resulted in a proliferation of American-style shopping malls and the rise of the new middle class. Humorous and slightly caustic, Reas' images are a criticism of an emerging cultural façade epitomized by heritage industry sites, branding, and figurative cultural icons.