Of course people looking up into the sky, normally with a camera, is a nice gift for me, but it is easy to forget that the crowd here really love aeroplanes in a way I can never really appreciate. When a new fighter jet swoops by upside down there is a chorus of ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’.
“Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It’s the greatest taboo subject of all,” says Martin Parr in our special issue devoted to ageing, available now on newsstands, on the iPad and the iPhone. We spoke to photographers aged 19 to 100 about their career highs and how they keep their work fresh in the face of creative decline. Read our highlights
TIME LightBox presents a new monthly round-up of the best books, exhibitions and ways to experience photography beyond the web—from the Reportage Photography Festival in Sydney and a new Mitch Epstein book to Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’ at Aperture in New York and an André Kertész show in London.
We can’t say enough about British photographer Martin Parr’s new book, Life’s a Beach
“Don’t be scared of photographing a storm-out, crying fit or strop…” British photographer Martin Parr advised readers in a 2010 Guardian column about vacation photography. “I would argue that the more valuable document is the honest one.” Parr’s vivid documentary chronicle of Atlanta’s main’s street, Peachtree Street, is a provocative, pleasurable mix of honesty and hyperbole.
As part of our Swimsuit Issue, come relax and lose your inhibitions with this sandy slide show of Parr’s beach photos.
The High Museum of Art commissioned Martin Parr to document Atlanta as part of its Picturing the South project—a series of artist commissions that engage with the American South. Channeling his unparalleled ability to collate humor, wit, and curiosity into his heavily socio-cultural photographs, Parr captured the oddities and eccentricities of contemporary Americana.
For 20 years, Reporters Without Borders has been fighting for freedom of the press. They regularly publish fundraising photo albums devoted to selected photographers, with sales profits going to financing their actions. Martin Parr’s work is being featured in the latest album to be released. If this choice could at first seem surprising, it is no less justified. Indeed, this Magnum photographer has a unique style. Tourists are his main subjects.
Ten Magnum photographers will be working in Rochester. Two of these photographers have already gotten started. A couple weeks ago, Alessandra Sanguinetti and Jim Goldberg picked up Uncle Jackson in Oakland and began driving to Rochester. You can see some pictures from their trip here. On their way, Alessandra and Jim picked me up in Minnesota. Later today we’ll be joining Bruce Gilden, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Paolo Pellegrin, Larry Towell, Alex Webb, and Donovan Wylie in Rochester. For two weeks we’ll be living together and working together.
via Feature ShootHot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South, a thirty minute documentary short, examines the photography of Magnum’s most controversial and prolific member as he gathers images for his first commission by a major American art museum, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.
The recent Protest Box, compiled by the British photographer Martin Parr, just published by Steidl, contains five facsimile reprints of some of the most important books of protest produced within the history of the photobook
Link: PhotoMed’ Martin Parr & Magnum | La Lettre de la PhotographieMartin Parr, famous for his scathing observations of contemporary society, is the honorary guest at this first Festival PhotoMed’. This Magnum photographer’s humorous pictures of the city of Benidorm, Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, are on display.
Link: Q&A: Martin Parr on Brighton Photo Biennial – British Journal of PhotographyMartin Parr talks about his latest discoveries, on show in Brighton. In the Q&A with BJP’s editor, he also discusses the international photography scene, and explains why the UK is “handicapped”.
Link: A Photo Student › Interview: Martin Parr “Boundaries Merely Exist in People’s Minds”On the 25th of October of last year, Magnum photographer Martin Parr was a guest at the Profiles event at the Antwerp FotoMuseum. He gave a reading and participated afterwards in a roundtable on the ‘Photographic Magazine as Medium.’ FotoMuseum extra Magazine had the chance to talk to him earlier that day.
Link: INTERVIEW: “Interview with Martin Parr – Boundaries Merely Exist in People’s Minds” (2007)photography is a commercial activity. Even high art photography wants to be commercial, because everyone wants to sell prints. I mean, the wealthiest photographer in the world is probably no longer fashion photographer Steven Meisel, but Andreas Gursky, who is at the top end of the art market. So it is interesting that the art market, financially often regarded as the poor cousin of commerce, is now way ahead of the commercial fashion industry. You can ask any photographer what he or she wants and they’ll probably answer: I want to do my own work, I want to sell my work as prints. Ultimately that is a commercial goal. So we’ll never be far away from the notion of commerce.
