1970's - Current Times.

70s, 80s, 90s, Present time.

Jamie Reid and John Varnum,
'Never Mind the Bollocks', UK, 1977

Original artwork advertising the
album by the Sex Pistols. 

Power of the Poster 
Margaret Timmers
page 69 




"The emergence of mass politics not only expianed the flood of political propaganda printed in the las decades of the nineteenth century, but also the forms that many of these posters took."

Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising
'Labour isn't working', UK, 1979.
Published by the Conservative Party.
Power of the Poster 
Margaret Timmers
Page 104 

Photography

Chris Killip

A photographer who is considered to have captured the 1980's in a rather interesting light.  With current political disagreement and disruption in the country, chris fillip worked on taking a eerie of images called 'another country'. These images opposed all that the current political party who was in charge at this time stood for. 
With Margret Thatcher seeming to be saying the country was all fine and well, Chris Killip sure showed the reality of the damage the conservative government was doing to the north east of England through his photography. 


Another Country

http://www.all-about-photo.com/photographer.php?name=Chris%20Killip&id=264&popupimage=4

Angelic Upstarts at a Miners’ Benefit Dance at the Barbary Coast Club, Sunderland, Wearside, 1984

Bever, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, 1980

Crabs and People, Skinningrove, North Yorkshire © Chris Killip, 1981

BRUSSELS SPROUTS, GATESHEAD, TYNESIDE 1977

TRUE LOVE WALL, GATESHEAD TOWN CENTER, TYNESIDE 1975

QUEUE DURING "THE BREAD STRIKE", NEWCASTLE, TYNESIDE 1977

MEN LEAVING SWANN HUNTER SHIPYARD, WALLSEND, TYNESIDE 1977

His black and white images are raw and brings the viewer to reality. It is easy to imagine the response these images would have got in a time when politics had the country divided. For me i feel a series of images like these really show the power and effect photography have. 

Martin Parr

Another photographer who during this same era had political reasoning behind a series of his images. Photography from the 70's right through to now. A series of images named 'Last Resort' by Martin Parr work in the same way of Chris Killip's by showing the shocking truth of the state and reality of Britain's working class during the 1980's.

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL5357TF

Last Resort


                                  GB. England. New Brighton. From 'The Last Resort'. 1983-85.

Martin Parr Current Work

Even in Martin Parrs recent work its clear that he is still as interested in British as culture as what he was 20-30 years ago. A lot of these images appear to have similar themes to the body of work created in the 1980's. By photographing every day work class people and families seems to make such engaging and interesting images. A lot of his images have a sort of humour within them, i think this is because the images are relatable to the viewer, and really do capture the 'typical' not so glamorous side of things that we would associate with Britain.