Author: Williams, Val
Title: Martin Parr
Description: London, England, Phaidon, 2002. Softcover. Multicolored glued wraps with gilt lettering on cover. 1-354 pp. chiefly color and b+w images. Martin Parr's photographs can make us feel very uncomfortable. He has made a comedy about the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the places we go; scrutinized the very way we live our lives. Some might say that Martin Parr has exploited our lack of tasteand good judgement by picturing it all, latterly in the brightest of colours, exposing our pretty vanities to the world. Others, who have perhaps a more honed sense of the political, and less regard for the peculiarly British debate around the ethics of photography, could insist that Parr has merely recorded a myriad of social ills, the loosening of community ties, the mass embrace of consumerism, the manic pursuit of leisure and global tourism, the vanity fair of the English middle class and the phantasmagoria of the sub-class that emerged in Britain during the 1980s. VG+ exlib with stamps on textblocks and inside covers, stickers inside both front and back covers .

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