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A Conversation with Martin Parr | burn magazine

A Conversation With Martin Parr

[slidepress gallery=’martinparr_conversation’]Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls A Conversation With Martin Parrplay this essay David Alan Harvey: What I …

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When I try a new technique, I always do it first on the beach. There are about six phases of my photography career, black and white, then wide angle with medium format, etc., etc., but I always try them out on the beach first because it’s like an experimental laboratory for me. You have all these people, you can do different things, so this is no exception. It is really like the last chapter of exploration. So inevitably, therefor, I begin at the beach first.

September 11, 2014
The photobook according to Parr » British Journal of Photography

The photobook according to Parr

He may look harmless in his open-toe sandals and comfortable sweater, but Martin Parr has been poking a stick at the establishment for nigh on 40 years, agitating for a more prominent status for photography through his own work and all that he admires. Fo

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With The Photobook: A History, Volume III, co-authored by Parr and Gerry Badger, and published by Phaidon, upon us, I was invited to the Bristol-based photographer’s home, to delve into his unrivalled collection of up to 12,000 books, which he’s used to piece together a previously unwritten account of an undervalued aspect of our image culture.

June 7, 2014
The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick

The Best Photobooks of the Year: Martin Parr takes his pick

Vagabond Photographer By Sergio Larrain, published by Thames & Hudson What a total treat! Here we have all the classic iconic images from this wonderful photographer who died only last year. On top of that, Agnes Sire has dug up many unknown Larrains that

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Photographer and photobook expert Martin Parr selects the best titles published this year

November 19, 2013
Paris Air Show | Martin Parr

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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’.

August 6, 2013
Ageing and creative decline in photography: a taboo subject

Ageing and creative decline in photography: a taboo subject

How do photographers keep their work fresh in the face of what Martin Parr describes as ‘probably the greatest taboo subject of all’ – creative decline? In the June edition of BJP, we spoke to photographers aged 19 to 100 and asked them when they think th

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“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

June 5, 2013
The Guide: The Best Photographic Exhibitions, Books and Shows May 2013

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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.

April 29, 2013
Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’

Martin Parr’s ‘Life’s a Beach’

We can’t say enough about beloved British photographer Martin Parr’s new book, Life’s a Beach, published by Aperture this year. Parr’s coastal infatuation started in the 1970s—you may recall his 1986 release of The Last Resort, a capture of the seaside re

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We can’t say enough about British photographer Martin Parr’s new book, Life’s a Beach

April 23, 2013
Book Review: Up and Down Peachtree

Book Review: Up and Down Peachtree

Up and Down Peachtree . Photographs by Martin Parr. Contrasto, 2012. Up and Down Peachtree Reviewed by Joscelyn Jurich Up and Dow…

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“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.

April 4, 2013
Martin Parr Up and down Peachtree

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November 9, 2012
On The Beach With Martin Parr

On the Beach with Martin Parr

For over forty years, Martin Parr has photographed beach culture around the globe. From the world-famous waterfronts of Cannes and Copacabana to the lesser…

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As part of our Swimsuit Issue, come relax and lose your inhibitions with this sandy slide show of Parr’s beach photos.

August 16, 2012
Martin Parr: Picturing the American South

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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.

June 28, 2012
Martin Parr Tourism Inc

Link: Martin Parr Tourism Inc | La Lettre de la Photographie

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.

May 18, 2012
Too much photography

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May 16, 2012
A Postcard From Rochester

A Postcard From Rochester

Last May, five Magnum photographers (Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Mikhael Subotzky and myself) and the writer Ginger Strand, set out from San Antonio, Texas in an RV named Uncle J…

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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.

April 15, 2012
Hot Spots: Martin Parr in the American South

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Hot 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.

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February 29, 2012
A Package of Protest

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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

December 30, 2011
PhotoMed' Martin Parr & Magnum

Martin 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: PhotoMed’ Martin Parr & Magnum | La Lettre de la Photographie

June 1, 2011
Martin Parr: Photographic Clichés

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April 26, 2011
Black Country Stories | Martin Parr

New Photos from Martin Parr…
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November 17, 2010
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: A Photo Student › Interview: Martin Parr “Boundaries Merely Exist in People’s Minds”

September 3, 2010