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Think of England

Think of England

by Martin Parr
Paperback
Publication Date: 18/10/2004

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England has been a key subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr's work since he started taking pictures.

Think of England is a comic, opinionated, affectionately satirical, colour-saturated photo-essay about the identity of England.

As Scotland and Wales consolidate their status as nations and Great Britain begins to unravel, this book of new work contributes to the debate about what it means to be English.

Quintessentially English himself, Parr's great achievement as a photographer is his ability to transform the obvious into the surprising, reinventing cliches of Englishness as provocative revelations.

His tour of obvious England takes in Ascot and the charity shop, seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, the bring-and-buy stall, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, baked beans and bad footwear.

Parr's work has already added to the visual vocabulary of England; this book, his first specifically on the subject of England, stretches it further.

Simultaneously affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs are shot with a ring flash camera (more usually used for medical photographs), which has been his medium of choice for the last four years.

ISBN:
9780714844541
9780714844541
Category:
Photographs: collections
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
18-10-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Phaidon Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
270x191x14mm
Weight:
0.64kg
Martin Parr

Martin Parr is arguably Britain's key contemporary photographer, with a unique point of view and unmistakable signature, and with a critical and popular following in the spheres of art, fashion and journalism.

He has been widely published and internationally exhibited: he is very well known across Europe and becoming a major figure in the USA.

Books of his photographs include Bad Weather, The Cost of Living (1991), Small World (1995), The Last Resort Photographs of New Brighton (1997) and Think of England (2000).

His first Boring Postcards book for Phaidon (1999) was a massive success, both in England and around the world.

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