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	Martin Parr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Parr (born 1952) is a British documentary photographer / photo-journalist.
		Parr is known for his lurid, and sometimes shocking, use of colour in photography.
		Parr is also a member of the Magnum Photos Agency - a group of esteemed photojournalists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Parr (188 words)

	The Zeugma: Interviews: Martin Parr
		Parr's elevation to full membership status of the Magnum photographic agency did not follow a smooth path either, when he was evidently tagged by some members as an anti-humanist, and so out of step with an organisation that prides itself on its old-style humanism.
		Parr explained the reasons for choosing to now work in colour negative and with the Plaubel 6x7 wideangle camera: "Colour was regarded as something for snapshot photography or the professional, not for the serious photographer in the UK.
		Parr's next project, The Cost Of Living, observed his own middle class at work and play amongst the fields of consumerism, and it got more backs up than ever before, but it was The Last Resort that became a classic of photography, and second-hand copies of it are in huge demand.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~karlpeter/zeugma/inters/parr.htm (1272 words)

	British Council
		Martin Parr was born in Epsom and studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic.
		Parr's work addresses questions of class, prejudice and the erosion of social values by focusing his camera on the places and events encountered every day.
		Parr's mission to uncover the pathos and intimations of decay in that existence can be compared to an anthropologist's investigation of the tribes of Britain in the 1980s.
	collection.britishcouncil.org /html/artist/artist.aspx?id=17572 (267 words)

	Presentation House Gallery - Julie Henry, Martin Parr, Nina Toft
		Parr is a member of Magnum, the global photo agency based in New York, London and Paris.
		Parr’s England is charming in an other-worldly way, sometimes decaying before our eyes, product-obsessed, arcanely ritualistic and, overall, a place where the seagulls look healthier than the people.
		Some have said that Parr’s images are ‘brutally real’, but one could also say that they really only picture what is there, and that any brutality is not in the pictures, but in the world that is his subject.
	www.presentationhousegall.com /HenryParrToft.html (1157 words)

	Thoughts on Martin Parr
		Martin Parr collected and compiled all the former; he took both of the latter.
		But Parr's compilation of his own recent photographs, Think of England - part of a wider project that also included a film shown in BBC2's Modern Times series in April 1999 - is at the opposite end of the scale of progress.
		A week after writing that piece originally, I saw a BBC documentary filmed in Lincoln during the summer of 1985, and the dress of the kids was not noticeably different from in the Frimley photo.
	www.elidor.freeserve.co.uk /parr.htm (1072 words)

	Photobook (The): A History, Vol. 1, by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The selection of photographers made by Badger and Parr challenges the popular canon, and their survey of the history of the photobook reveals a secret web of influence and interrelationships between photographers and photographic movements around the world.
		Chosen by Parr and Badger, these illustrations show around 200 of the most artistically and culturally important photobooks in three dimensions, with the cover or jacket and a selection of spreads from the book shown.
		Parr is a member of the international photo agency Magnum, and has recently branched out into film-making.
	www.bhny.com /pow/2005/0504p0714842850.html (432 words)

	eyestorm - article - Martin Parr
		Parr studied photography at Manchester School of Art in 1970, and for his graduation show built a replica of a typical British sitting-room with flowered wallpaper, a soundtrack of The Sound of Music and the smell of cheap perfume.
		Parr, however, recognized in these innocent choices (and in the not-so-lighthearted family squabbles about objects and what they meant) the rise of a consumer culture in which shopping would gradually replace religion and erode everyday morality.
		Parr was photographing a country that had changed so rapidly it barely resembled the one even he had grown up in.
	www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=237&artist_id=12 (960 words)

	Martin Parr - A Reveiw
		Martin was born in 1952 and went to college at the then Manchester Polytechnic College in 1972 to study for his degree.
		Martin's views had changed irredeemably from the journey from the quiet worshippers of Hebden bridge chapel to the t-shirted tourists clustered around the Sphinx in Gaza.
		Martin Parr images from The Cost Of Living and The Last Resort are copyright protected and must not be reproduced.
	www.uklandscape.net /features/MartinParr.htm (772 words)

	Tangents fun'n'frenzy filled web site.
		Parr is possibly the UK's most celebrated contemporary photographer, and on the evidence of this beautifully presented book, which collects images from all his published books, including The Last Resort, Signs of the Times and Think Of England, rightly so.
		Parr seems however, through his own work and his obsessive collecting and collation of other visual sources, to be determined to document a different Modern Britain to that popularised by retro-TV; his is a Britain that many would prefer to pretend didn't, and doesn't exist.
		Parr seems fascinated by the meaning of images; the very essence of the meaning communicated by events or objects that we experience visually, and the idea that those meanings can be manipulated by altering the context, notably by taking them from the world and presenting them as still images in a gallery or a book.
	www.tangents.co.uk /tangents/main/2002/feb/parr.html (960 words)

	Tate Modern \| Past Exhibitions \| Cruel and Tender
		Parr’s grandfather encouraged his early interest in photography, and he studied at the Manchester School of Art.
		In the early 1980s, Parr produced a series of photographs of New Brighton, a run-down seaside resort outside Liverpool.
		More recently, Parr has addressed themes of consumerism, mass tourism and globalisation with a distinctive wit and sense of irony.
	www.tate.org.uk /modern/exhibitions/cruelandtender/parr.htm (121 words)

	Atrium Alcatel Exhibition: Photos by Martin Parr
		The display in the Alcatel Atrium is Martin Parr's third exhibition in Paris this spring.
		Martin Parr's photos of Slovenia are part of this exhibition.
		With four photo exhibitions per year, the programs in Alcatel's Atrium are a way for employees, partners, customers and the general public to become familiar with the company's activities or the regions of the world where it operates.
	www.home.alcatel.com /vpr/vpr.nsf/va_TousByIDPere/II469E5B9A4A9B61DFC125700500509E11EngII (471 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Martin Parr: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parr may divide the critics at times, but this tasty body of work argues persuasively for his provocative and accomplished take on life, snapped from the inside looking in.
		With unlimited access to Parr's archives and quoting from extensive interviews, writer and curator Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and setting him in a new context in assessing his importance as an artist.
		Author Williams writes in depth about Martin Parr and his work and with several hundred photos this book is an excellent visual biography of one of the best British documentary photographers working today.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0714839906 (966 words)

	Amazon.com: Martin Parr: Books: Val Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A suburban warrior from Surrey, Parr was one of the first to drag British photography from the realms of advertising, fashion, or hobby to the pretensions of serious art.
		This Martin Parr retrospective is rich in the wit and colour that Parr's work is best known for, but also offers the first serious assessment of the career of this major contemporary photographer.
		Martin Parr is a member of MagnumPhotos.com, where you can also find some examples of his work.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0714839906?v=glance (1173 words)

	LRB \| Peter Campbell : At the Barbican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Parr and his friends were interested in documenting the unglamorous.
		In the Parr recapitulation this would equate with the moment in the 1950s when William Klein began to press his wide-angle lens close in - he didn't care if the subject was seen to be seeing and reacting to him.
		Parr in his later work - which now includes advertising and fashion - is valued for his ability to push his view of the world in our faces rather than his ability to make something graceful, tender, majestic, energetic, awe-inspiring or picturesque from it.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v24/n07/camp01_.html (1100 words)

	BBC - Blast - Film - Artist Profile: Martin Parr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Martin Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic and graduated in 1973.
		Although he is best known to the general public as the man who brought us the wonderful collections of Boring Postcards, Martin Parr is one of the most influential and innovative documentary photographers.
		Parr seems fond of his subjects but also slightly bemused or critical of them.
	www.bbc.co.uk /blast/film/profiles/martinparr.shtml (195 words)

	Martin Parr’s true colors - Paris Voice Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was reported that when Henri Cartier-Bresson saw Parr’s exhibition in 1995 he said “You are from a completely different planet to me.” Where photographers such as Bresson attempted to convey a certain nobility in the human spirit, Parr’s pictures appeal to our voyeurism.
		Photo critic Colin Jacobson describes Parr as a “gratuitously cruel social critic who has made large amounts of money by sneering at the foibles and pretensions of other people.” While on the other hand fashion designer Agnès B says she likes his documentary pictures for the “affection” they show for his subjects.
		Another thing that separates Parr from previous generations of documentary photographers is his embrace of fashion.
	parisvoice.com /?fuseaction=Article.Article&A=157 (744 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Martin Parr: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the leading British photographers of his, or any, generation, Martin Parr presents a retrospective of Parr's 30-year career, a dynamic entirely appropriate to his wry, equivocal look at nostalgia and tradition.
		Of similar kitchen-sink, kitschy curiosity as Pulp explore in their so-English music, Parr is less concerned with the "ordinary" than with the life less ordinary, such as holidays or social occasions, at which we exhibit our most excruciating foibles.
		With unlimited access to Parr's archives and quoting from extensive interviews, distinguished writer and curator Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and setting him in a new context by assessing his importance as an artist.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/071484389X (975 words)

	FASHION SHOW: THE POSTER - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		Presents for the very first time Martin Parr's "Fashion Show", the photographer's characteristically irreverent "take" on a familiar photographic subject, the hallowed domain of Brodovitch, Avedon and Bruce Weber, among others, revisited, retouched, and redefined.
		Parr's "invasion" of fashion photography may come as a surprise to his most ardent admirers, but he is right to point out that some of the most interesting, most vital, and most cutting-edge photography were done commercially, for fashion advertisements, magazine covers, spreads and features, often under the tightest deadlines and most compromised circumstances.
		Parr cites the work of Avedon and William Klein as antecedents, and professes genuine admiration for the work of such photographers as Guy Bourdin, Nick Knight and Steven Meisel, the principal photographer/stylist/creator behind Madonna.
	www.modernrare.com /books/8430 (306 words)

	Martin Parr: Humanity Is Not Pretty
		Parr‚s elevation to full membership status of the Magnum photographic agency did not follow a smooth path either, when he was evidently tagged by some members as an anti-humanist, and so out of step with an organisation that prides itself on its old-style humanism.
		His sense of composition is superb, but I can’t use him that often because a lot of people find his work cruel, and he does have an angry sense of humour.
		Parr’s next project, The Cost Of Living, observed his own middle class at work and play amongst the fields of consumerism, and it got more backs up than ever before, but it was The Last Resort that became a classic of photography, and second-hand copies of it are in huge demand.
	radio.weblogs.com /0100271/stories/2002/01/29/martinParrHumanityIsNotPret.html (1338 words)

	Leica Photography Forum: OT: Martin Parr on the BBC last night
		Parr with his saturated colour and flash is, I would suggest, more "postmodern" and should be seen in a tradition from pop art and Warhol, with Lisette Model and Weegee going before.
		The chief criticism of Martin's work in the 1980s (especially from his new magnum colleagues) was that he pokes fun at the working class and their environs and the clothes and products they consume.
		Martin Parr should be praised for his courage in approaching and photographing these people without getting his face filled in!
	www.photo.net /bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=006gqL (3073 words)

	Martin Parr Art: PicassoMio.com
		Perhaps the most successful British photographer of his generation, Magnum member Martin Parr creates colorful images that, ranging in subject from crumbling British seaside towns to international hubs of consumer culture, offer witty, unblinking insights into contemporary life.
		Parr studied photography at Manchester College of Art in 1970.
		Parr was photographing a country, Britain, that had changed so rapidly it barely resembled the one even he had grown up in.
	www.picassomio.com /MartinParr/en (491 words)

	Hebweb news: Martin Parr, ex-Hebden Bridger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From 1974 to 1979 Martin Parr lived and worked in Hebden Bridge, and was one of the founders of the Albert Street Workshop.
		In the programme, Martin described his time in Hebden Bridge and how different the town was then.
		Imagine followed Martin Parr with his camera, and at his home, to paint a portrait of this former train spotter, and darling of commercials and media, who remains utterly eccentric.
	www.hebdenbridge.co.uk /news/news03/54.html (222 words)

	SADDAM HUSSEIN WATCHES - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		Martin Parr keeps pushing the envelope: He shares most people's aversion to Saddam Hussein.
		All that is left of his brutal rule are these mementos of the arrogance, overweening vanity and hubris which eventually led to his downfall.
		Parr is an ironist (who is often mistaken for being a satirist) whose oblique, indirect and witty approach leaves a strong aftertaste.
	www.modernrare.com /books/7620 (454 words)

	Amazon.com: Martin Parr: Autoportrait: Books: Martin Parr,Marvin Heiferman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whenever travelling on assignment Parr has had his picture taken by a local studio photographer, street photographer or in a photo booth.
		The 50 or so portraits of Parr, taken by studio photographers in exotic locales, are dripping with irony and loaded with critical comment on the role of the image in the early 21st.
		Parr achieves this impact in such a simple, straightforward manner, all you can say - through your uproarious laughter - is: this guy's a genius.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1899235728?v=glance (477 words)

	Martin Parr - A8 - JMP Journal No.1
		So I asked Martin Parr to collaborate on a project to record these towns and the people who live and work there.
		"Parr's photographs succeed in conveying that very sense of place and belonging: from the blur of sticky fingerprints around a socket switch to a crowd milling on Dunoon pier, a ragbag of teenage goths, tracksuit pants and flat caps.
		There are portraits of supermarkets, scrapyards, the Cowal Games at Dunoon; the bewildering aquamarine of Gourock lido pulled up against the scruff of a leaden sky and squalling sea; the ill-monikered Fancy Farm housing estate, brick the colour of Wednesday afternoon in the silty grey light that pervades all of these photographs.
	www.schaden.com /book/ParMarA804028.html (348 words)

	Martin Parr @ Britart.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Martin Parr’s work has always provoked discussion and debate.
		A pioneer of colour photography and an insightful commentator on the commercial culture of today as well as domestic and social life, he has revitalized and repositioned contemporary documentary photography.
		The Collector’s Edition of Martin Parr comprises a specially bound book presented in a cloth-bound box with either a silver gelatin or limited edition c-type print made and signed by the photographer.
	www.britart.com /artists/artist760_all.aspx?ret=browse/artists3.aspx (217 words)

	BIO: Martin Parr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		British-born Martin Parr is known for his bright colors, striking compositions and satirical topics.
		A member of Magnum Photos since 1994, his bio lists participation in 59 group exhibitions, publication of 14 books and catalogs, and prints in 21 permanent museum and gallery collections.
		Parr has collaborated on two BBC documentaries and has been a visiting lecturer or professor at colleges in Dublin, Newport, London and Helsinki.
	www.life.com /Life/eisies/1998/photographers/parr.html (67 words)

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