Since 1985 Martin Parr has been capturing the kitsch culture of seaside resort towns the world over. Starting with the tattered charm of New Brighton near Liverpool in his famous photo essay The Last Resort, the photographer’s anthropological take on beach culture has moved from Englands’ north...
I love to try different approaches to photography and in recent years I have started to explore what is possible with a telephoto lens. As the beach has always been an experimental place to explore new ideas, I called the new work that emerged, Beach Therapy. ...
thomas weski sedition presents a digital edition of a 2014 work by parr taken in sorrento, italy. photographed from above, a busy beach in summer becomes a mosaic of towels. on the central towel a couple embrace. the work is included as part of the magnum at 70 partnership between magnum...
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Martin Parr Above Mar Del Plata, Argentina, 2014 from the series 'Beach Therapy' © Martin Parr / Magnum Photos INTHow did you first get into photography? Would you say that your grandfather was your main influence? MPI guess he was. He looked after me, he lent me a camera, we went...
Martin ParrJohn Thomsondocumentary photographycolonial photographypostcolonial viewingstill lifeSri LankaBritish Empirestreet photographyseeing coloniallyBritish contemporary photographer Martin Parrs collection 7 Colonial Still Lifes (2005) delivers banal and benign images of remnants of British colonisation in Sri...
So in a Gucci shoot on the beach in Cannes, an androgynously pale male model sits on a yellow beach chair in the full sun, wearing a glittery top, some heavy jewelry, and what looks like leather pants – not exactly a typical (or functional) beach outfit. Parr pairs this lounging man...
Martin Parr Foundation (Bristol, UK) supports emerging, established and overlooked photographers who have made, and continue to make, work focussed on Britain and Ireland. The Foundation runs a programme of events, workshops and exhibitions in their gallery and event space. It holds a growing coll...
Snaphappy; Martin Parr Finds It Hard to Stop Taking Photographs, Even on Holiday. as a New Exhibition Chronicling 20th-Century Photography Opens at Tate ... S Garratt - Snaphappy; Martin Parr Finds It Hard to Stop Taking Photographs, Even on Holiday. as a New Exhibition Chronicling 20th-Cen...
Ironically or not, the actual gift shop is located within the exhibition and sells a multitude of overpriced Parr-branded goods, including beach balls, magnets, aprons, and other useless miscellanea. So brightly lit and saturated with colour, it almost feels li...