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Clic Gallery Hosts Book Signing With Martin Parr, 3/8
Broadway World - Mar 4, 2010
Clic Gallery is pleased to present the legendary photographer Martin Parr signing his most recent monograph LUXURY, published by Chris Boot. ...

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Time Out Chicago - Feb 24, 2010
In the 1990s, it took Martin Parr six years to gain admission to Magnum, the prestigious photo agency, not because his talent was in ...

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Martin Parr: Luxury

"With photography, I like to create fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving it a twist," says British photographer Martin Parr, who is most known for his satirical images of the ostentatiously wealthy. Luxury is Parr's epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption, with candid images of the fabulously wealthy on the international party circuit: champagne-fuelled lunches, horse races, Moscow's Millionaire Fair, the Dubai Art Fair and the Beijing Motor Show, to name a few locales.
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Martin Parr (Portfolio (Teneues Numbered)) (No.36)

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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Martin Parr

by: Sandra Phillips
Martin Parr (b. 1952) is one of the best-known and most influential British photographers working today, acclaimed for his frank chronicling of life and society. This introductory monograph charts Parr's entire career including early black and white photographs, unpublished images made over the last five years, and works from all his major projects, including THE LAST RESORT and THINK OF ENGLAND. Parr is a prolific book-maker and collector, as well as a long-standing member of the Magnum photographic agency.
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Martin Parr

by: Val Williams
A broad and representative selection of Parr's work. The text has a higher than usual fact to waffle ratio for the field.
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