Collected in this portfolio are provocative colour images from a British photographer who has become one of the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr has best expressed himself through books (Home and Abroad, Think of England, The Last Resort) in which he uses a subjective documentary approach that is often at odds with the more journalistic style of reportage. His focus on the themes of mass tourism, mass consumption, mass marketing and global homogenization shows us an environmentally destroyed world in which the major saving grace is a gritty, very British sense of humour.
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A collection of provocative color images from a British photographer who has become the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr's work is the subject of an exhibition traveling through Europe in 2004. Parr's use of a documentary approach to show us an environmentally destroyed world is amply illustrated in books such as Home and Abroad, Think of England, and The Last Resort.
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Collected in this portfolio are provocative color images from a British photographer who has become the most successful of his generation. Martin Parr has best expressed himself through books (Home and Abroad, Think of England, The Last Resort) in which he uses a subjective documentary approach that is often at odds with the more journalistic style of reportage.
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Sarcastic and Witty,
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This review is from: Martin Parr (Portfolio (Teneues Numbered)) (No.36) (Paperback)
If you don't get British humor, and more specifically, sarcasm, then skip this book. If you are interested in something both fresh and visually compelling, Parr is your guy. It's not always easy to get a hold of his books, so get them when you see them.
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