About the photographer, Martin PARR (b.1952)

Martin PARR studied photography in Manchester from 1970 - 1973. He provokes by photographing everyday clichés. In doing so, he captures derailments of taste and shows the ugliness that is usually avoided or retouched as a motif and documents above all British everyday culture. He was president of Magnum Photos from 2013 to 2017.

Photo books by and on the work of Martin PARR (main books, a selection)

'Bad Weather' (1982); 'The Last Resort' (1986, 1998, 2009, 2015); 'Signs of the Times' (1992, 2014, french: 2006); 'Small World' (1995, 2007, 2018, 2022); 'Common Sense' (1999, 2022); 'Martin Parr by Val Williams' (2002, 2014); 'The Photobook. A History, Volume I' (2004, ed. together with Gerry Badger'; 'The Photobook. A History, Volume II' (2006, ed. together with Gerry Badger'; 'Martin Parr 1971-2000' (2007); 'The Protest Box' (2011, ed.); 'Life's a Beach' (2012, 2013); 'Non Conformists' (2013); 'Martin Parr by Sandra S Phillips' (2013); 'The Photobook. A History, Volume III' (2014, ed. together with Gerry Badger'; 'Books on Books. Volume 17: Martin Parr. Bad Weather,' (2014); 'The Chinese Photobook' (2015, 2016, ed. together with WASSINKLUNDGREN); 'The Photobook Phenomenon' (2017, ed. together with Vicen Villatoro, Pepe De Mora, Moritz Neumüller, Lesley Martin and Gerry Badger); 'Prestwich Mental Hospital' (2018); 'Early Works' (2019); 'Facing Britain. British Documentary Photography since the 1960s (2021, together a.o. with works by David HURN, Tom WOOD, Tony RAY-JONES, Markéta LUSKACOVA, Anna FOX, John MYERS, Peter MITCHELL); 'Acropolis Now' (2022)

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Boxed set of 10 photo volumes by Jessica BACKHAUS, Gerry BADGER, Harvey BENGE, John GOSSAGE, Todd HIDO, Rob HORNSTRA, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Eva Maria OCHERBAUER, Martin PARR as well as Alec SOTH
198,00 € *
Actual printrun, HC with dust jacket, 25 x 29 x 3,5 cm., 320 pp., richly color illustrated, text language: English
198,00 €
Pb. with plastic dust jacket, 19,5 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 96 pp., color ills., 460 gr., bilingual text: Italian / English
198,00 € *
The 'Protest Box' compiled by British photographer as well as photo book expert Martin Parr contains five facsimile editions of out-of-print photo volumes by Enrique BOSTELMANN, Paolo GASPARINI, Dirk ALVERMANN, Kauz KITAI and Paolo MATIOLI & Anna CANDIANI
198,00 € * Weight 4.2 kg
Boxed set of 27 picture cards, 20 x 20 x 5 cm. with booklet, b/w ills., text language: English
148,00 € *
For 'America 2006' two well-known photographers collaborated under the pseudonym 'Obvious & Ordinary' to focus on the images rather than personalities. Despite the fact some works are inspired by William EGGLESTON, their aesthetics are clearly expressed.
128,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
HC with dust jacket,
98,00 € *
In his 'The Americans List II' Jason ESKENAZI collected answers by photographers visiting the 'Looking In' exhibition about 'The Americans' by Robert FRANK, choosing their favorite image and why. The book could to become a classic in photography education
98,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Val Williams' comprehensive monograph (in english) on the entire career of British photographer Martin PARR has been updated for the second edition with new images, a chapter on his recent work and on his filmmaking, curating, collecting and publishing.
98,00 € * Weight 3 kg
HC with dust jacket, ca. 30 x 25 x 4 cm., 464 pp., text language: English
79,00 € *


More photo books by and on the work by Martin PARR

'A Fair Day' (1984); 'Calderdale Photographs' (1984); 'Prescot Now and Then' (1984); 'The Cost of Living' (1989); 'One Day Trip' (1989); 'Bored Couples' (1993); 'Home and Abroad' (1993); 'From A to B' (1994); 'British Food' (1995); 'Japonais Endormis' (1998); 'Sguardi Gardesani' (1999); 'Flowers' (1999, 2000); 'Benidorm' (1999); 'Autoportrait' (2000, 2015); 'Think of England' (2000,2004); 'The Phone Book' (2002); '7 Communist Still Lifes' (2003, 2005); 'Boring Postcards' (2004); 'Vu par' (2005); 'Road Trip, Martin Parr and Friends' (2005); 'I Grandi Fotografi' (2005); 'Mexico' (2006); 'Parrjektif' (2006); 'Tutta Roma' (2006); 'Parking Spaces' (2007); 'Witness Number Three' (2007); 'Les Grands Photographes de Magnum Photos' (2007); 'Phaidon 55' (2007); 'Correspondencia' (2008); 'Everybody Dance Now' (2009); 'Playas' (2009); 'Luxury' (2009); 'Joachim Schmid Is Martin Parr' (2009); 'Assorted Cocktail' (2009, 2011); 'In India' (2010); 'The Real World' (2010, together with works by by Rimaldas VIKSRAITIS); 'Parr by Parr' (2010, Italian/Russian: 2012); 'A Book of Kings' (2010); 'Macchu Picchu' (2010); 'One Day: 10 Photographers' (2010, together with works by Jessica BACKHAUS, Gerry BADGER, Harvey BENGE, John GOSSAGE, Todd HIDO, Rob HORNSTRA, Rinko KAWAUCHI, Eva Maria OCHERBAUER as well as by Alec SOTH); 'Japan' (2011); 'Urban Outfitters' (2011); '7 Cups of Tea' (2012); 'No Worries' (2012); 'Up and Down Peachtree' (2012); 'Souvenir' (2012); 'Made in Italy' (2012); 'Christ's Hospital' (2012); 'The Life Lovers ABC' (2012); 'Grand Paris' (2014); 'Voewood Festival' (2014); 'Hong Kong Parr' (2014); 'Black Country Stories' (2014); 'We Love Britain!' (2014); 'The Amalfi Coast' (2014); 'Chinatown' (2015); 'A Place in the Sun' (2015); 'Evian: Through the Eyes of Martin Parr' (2015); 'The Rhubarb Triangle' (2016); 'Real Food' (2016); 'Yates's' (2016); 'Cakes & Balls' (2016); 'Makers of Today's Istanbul. Mavi's 25th Anniversary Tribute' (2016); 'Abandoned Morris Minors of the West of Ireland' (2017); 'Conventional Photography' (2017); 'Oxford' (2017); 'Think of Scotland' (2017); 'Colouring Book' (2017); 'Remote Scottish Postboxes' (2017); 'Martin Parr’s Dunoon' (2017); 'Venedig' (2017, with works by Paolo PELLEGRI, Gueorgui PINKHASSOV, Mark POWER as well as by Robert VOIT); 'Toilet Paper' (2018); 'Tbilisi' (2018); 'Beach Therapy' (2018); 'Return to Manchester' (2018); 'World (The Price of Love)' (2018); 'Gucci Men’s Collection Cruise' (2019); 'Only Human' (2019); 'Souvenir' (2019); 'Visible/Invisible' (2019); 'Kleingärtner' (2019); 'Martin Parr in Wales' (2019); 'Death By Selfie' (2019); 'Back Then. Toona 1990-1992' (2019); 'Space Dogs. The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmomnauts' (2019); 'Toilet Paper' (2020); 'From the Pope to a Flat White' (2020); 'The British Seaside' (2020); 'Match Point' (2021); 'Vita Da Spiaggia' (2021); 'Parrathon' (2021); 'Visionari' (2021); 'Deja View' (2021); 'June Street' (2022)