Paul Reas
I can help, 1988
Lightjet print
76.2 x 101.6 cms
30 x 40 ins
Series: 2. I Can Help
10969
Exhibitions
Creating the Countryside: 1600-2017, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, 2017 (This print)Creating the Countryside: 1600-2017, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, 18 March - 18 June 2017
Literature
Ed. Verity Elson & Rosemary Shirley, Creating the Countryside: The Rural Idyll Past and Present, Paul Holberton Publishing, 2017, pp.54-55
From the series I Can Help, 1988. from the edition of 3. Paul Reas is part of a pioneering generation of photographers who exposed and critiqued British class and culture...
From the series I Can Help, 1988.
from the edition of 3.
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 edition of 3.
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.