MARTIN PARR (b. 1952, UK)
Martin Parr: Common Sense, 2002
SIGNED Import Artists' Monograph
Martin Parr by Val Williams, published by Phaidon, 2002. This encyclopedia of Martin Parr covers his long career as an image maker and has an insightful text written by long-standing friend and colleague, Val Williams. The book was produced to accompany his retrospective exhibition at the Barbican in London, which then toured over 10 more venues. A detailed analysis of Parr's development and career shows how he became a passionate collector of ephemera. Published by Phaidon Press Ltd., London, UK, 2002. Text by Val Williams. Designed by UNA (London) Designers. Printed in Hong Kong. Simultaneously issued in Italian by Contrasto. A second edition was released in 2003 as a softback in English, French and German. Hardbound, 352 pp., 597 four-color images. SIGNED by artist on title page. Dimensions: 9-7/8" x 11-3/8". BRAND NEW.
For much of his career, Martin Parr has excelled at skewering the eccentricities and peculiarities of contemporary national culture in his native Great Britain and beyond—in particular those having to do with food, tourism, bad fashion choices, and . . . more food.
On a recent trip to Mexico, Parr was struck by the clear impact of America's pop culture on Mexican life—the juxtaposition of Mickey Mouse with brightly colored saints, Nike logos with Day of the Dead skulls, and Coca Cola with cacti. Mexico presents his journey into and beyond the country's clichés. Many of the visual themes will be familiar to Parr fans, including colorful and mocking close-ups of food, hats, signs, and souvenirs, garishly shot with medical efficiency. And a darker underlying theme emerges—as in much of his later work—of the corruption of authentic cultural forms by global consumer culture. This work both critiques and celebrates this corruption. As he puts it, "What I am saying is that it's a good and a bad thing. I'm constantly trying to express ambiguity. And that's what photography does very well."
SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024
'Martin Parr: DCMP Devon and Cornwall', Burton at Bideford Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, UK (4/15 - 6/2)
'Martin Parr: Life's a Beach', Palazzo Callas Exhibitions, Sirmione, Italy (3/23 - 6/30)
'Fashion Faux Parr', Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France (3/22 - 5/26)
'Magnum Fashion: Curated by Martin Parr', Magnum Gallery, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Short & Sweet', Museo delle Culture (MUDEC) Photo, Milan, Italy (2/10 - 6/30)
2023
'Martin Parr: Parrathon', Abbaye de Stavelot, Stavelot, Belgium (11/24/2023 - 5/19/2024)
'Martin Parr: The Parr Survey', Harper's Chelsea 534, New York, NY
'Martin Parr: Sports & Spectatorship', Rocket Gallery, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Recent Work', Photo London 2023 Master of Photography, Somerset House, London, UK
'Martin Parr: A Year in the Life of Chew Stoke Village', Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, UK
2022
'Martin Parr: Déjà View', Magnum, Paris, France
'Martin Parr: Life's a Beach', Giant Gallery, Bournemouth, UK
'Martin Parr: Life's a Beach', Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungry
'MARTIN PARR | CORBIN SHAW', OOF Gallery, London, UK
2021
'VillaToilet MartinMedici PaperParr', Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
'Martin Parr's Ireland: 40 Years of Photography', Gallery of Photography Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
'Island Life – Photographs from the Martin Parr Foundation', Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
2020
'Martin Parr: World Tour', Janet Borden, Inc., Brooklyn, NY
'Martin Parr: The Eye of Parr', Synthesis Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
'Martin Parr: Small World', Lorena Carrillo Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2019
'Martin Parr: Retrospective', NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
'Martin Parr: Only Human', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2018
'Martin Parr: Beach Therapy', Spazio Damiani, Bologna, Italy
'Martin Parr: Early Work 1971-1986', Huxley-Parlour, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Remote Scottish Postboxes', Rocket Gallery, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Souvenir - A Photographic Journey', Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
2017
'Martin Parr: Souvenir - A Photographic Journey', Kunstfoyer, München, Germany
2016
'The Rhubarb Triangle & Other Stories: Photographs by Martin Parr', The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
2015
'Martin Parr: Souvenir', Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
'Life’s a Beach: Photographs by Martin Parr', Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2013
'Martin Parr: Life's a Beach', Aperture Gallery, New York, NY
2012
'Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail', Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Helmond, The Netherlands
2011
'Martin Parr: The Goutte d'Or !', L'Institut des Cultures d'Islam, Paris, France
'Martin Parr: Common Sense Revisited', Galerie Asbæk, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Martin Parr & Rimaldas Viksraitis: The Real World', AnzenbergerGallery, Wien, Austria
'Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail', Dox Centre for Contemporary Art, Praha, Czech Republic
'The Truth is Not in the Mirror: Photography and a Constructed Identity' (group exhibition), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
2010
'Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, 2000–2010' (group exhibition), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
'Martin Parr: the Albert Street Years', Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Hebden Bridge, UK
'Martin Parr: Luxury', Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain
'Martin Parr: Four Decades', Studio Trisorio, Rome, Italy
'Martin Parr: Four Decades', Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
'Martin Parr: Luxury', Janet Borden, Inc., New York, NY
'In Focus: Tasteful Pictures' (group exhibition), Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
'Martin Parr', Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
'Martin Parr: Playas', Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
'Martin Parr: Parrbooks', Rocket Gallery, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Parrworld', BALTIC, Gateshead, UK
'Martin Parr: Planète Parr (Parrworld)', Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
'Martin Parr: Playas', Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
'Martin Parr: Luxury', Second Street Gallery (SSG), Charlottesville, VA
'Auto: Dream and Matter' (group exhibition), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
'Martin Parr: Luxury', Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
'Martin Parr: Parr-O-Rama', Janet Borden, Inc., New York, NY
2008
'Martin Parr', Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
'Martin Parr: Parking Spaces', Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
'Martin Parr: Parrworld', Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
'Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail', santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
'Martin Parr: Dubai', The Third Line Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
'Three From Britain: Chris Killip, Martin Parr & Graham Smith', Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'MAGNUM Photos 60 years', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007
'Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail', C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
'Martin Parr', Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
'Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine', Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
'Martin Parr: A8 + Parking Spaces', Rocket Gallery, London, UK
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, Korea
'Being Beauteous' (group exhibition), White Space Gallery in St Peter's, London, UK
'Martin Parr: México', Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain
2006
'Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine', Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
'Martin Parr: Mexico', Janet Borden, Inc., New York, NY
'Martin Parr: Mexico', 212BERLIN, Mexico City, Mexico
'Martin Parr: Odense Photo Triennial', Museet for Fotokunst . Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
'Martin Parr: Assorted Cocktail', Visual Gallery Photokina, Köln Messe, Köln, Germany
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', FORMA Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy
'Martin Parr', Sabine Schmidt Galerie, Köln, Germany
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Preus fotomuseum, Horten, Norway
'Martin Parr: Tutta Roma', Musei Capitolini - Centrale Montemartini, Rome, Italy
'Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine', Danziger Projects, New York, NY
'Martin Parr', Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
'Martin Parr: Fashion Magazine', Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2005
'Martin Parr: Think of England' and 'Martin Parr: Cocktail', Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
'Martin Parr', Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
'Martin Parr: Swissness', Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich, Switzerland
'Martin Parr: The Phone Book', Galerie Albrecht, Münich, Germany
'Summer in the UK: Martin Parr and The John Hinde Butlin's Photographs', Daiter Contemporary, Chicago, IL
'Martin Parr: Parking Places', Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
'Martin Parr: Fashion Show', Rocket Gallery, London, UK and Bon Marché Department Store, Paris, France
'Martin Parr: Think of England', Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
'Martin Parr: Think of England & Germany', Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
'Martin Parr: Parking Places', Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), Paris, France
2004
'Martin Parr: Small World', Festival Explorafoto, Sala de Exposiciones La Salina, Salamanca, Spain
'Martin Parr: Common Sense', Studio Trisorio Roma, Rome, Italy
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Internationales Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany
'Martin Parr: Think of England', Janet Borden, Inc., New York, NY
'Europe, oh la la!', Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
'Martin Parr', André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
'Martin Parr: Common Sense', Stephen Daiter, Chicago, IL
2003
'Parr Pictures (still cheap)', 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen, Germany
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain
'Martin Parr: Small World', Diana Gallery, Athens, Greece
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
'Martin Parr: Das sind wir', c/o Berlin, Berlin, Germany
'Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000', National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
'Martin Parr: Phone Project & Common Sense', Studio Trisorio, Napoli, Italy
'Martin Parr', Galerie Ludovic de Wavrin, Paris, France
A retrospective of Parr's work, Martin Parr: Photographic Works 1971 - 2000 debuted at the Barbican Gallery, London (2002) and traveled in Europe through 2005. Organized by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford and the Barbican Gallery, London, with the support of Magnum Photos, London (Parr has been a member since 1994), this major retrospective examined the career of Martin Parr, arguably the most influential and innovative figure in British social documentary photography. Bringing together around 150 works and several installations, the exhibition explored the provocative, incisive and humorous nature of Parr's internationally established and distinctive vision.
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