There is something very Martin Parr about this postcard from Haan in Germany, illustrating a beach scene in Dahme, off the Baltic Sea.
It reminds me somewhat of the great British holiday, with the huts, though we would be lucky to see such fantastic blue skies. It is the bold, high-contrast colours combined with the kitsch nature of this postcard that makes me thing of Martin Parr, a British photographer known for photographing scenes from the everyday.
Martin Parr, ‘Mar del Plata’ 2014. http://www.martinparr.com/2014/mar-del-plata/
This photograph is from Parr’s Mar del Plata series. The resort is located in Argentina and is vast, the 16km of beach attracts over 7 million visitors a year, and is lined by 2000 hotels. The high contrast colours are also evident here, and the busyness of the beach is much like the Dahme postcard, except on acid.
Unfortunately the photographer and date of the postcard is unknown, and not printed on the postcard, and doesn’t bring up any matching photographs when searched by image on Google.
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