Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Martin Parr" in English language version.
We are here to talk about his books but Parr collects pretty much everything, from Chinese Mao-era tea caddies to miniature televisions, commemorative plates to cigarette cases decorated with Soviet space-dogs ... his most enduring legacy is likely to be the 12,000 photography books he has collected over the past 35 years. What began as a hobby has developed into a mission to change the way the history of photography is defined and understood. As a collector, he has discovered, documented and promoted previously unknown areas of photographic bookmaking.
Channel 4 series, Picture This ... Martin Parr ... is one of the three judges on the show ... BBC4's The Genius of Photography, which also featured Parr ... Parr, who was born in Epsom, Surrey, in 1952, was introduced to the camera by his grandfather, a keen amateur photographer who lived on the outskirts of Bradford, West Yorkshire. He went on to study photography at school ... In the early part of his career, teaching provided the bulk of his income ... In 2004, he was appointed Professor of Photography at the University of Wales, Newport ... Magnum paved the way for Parr to do more commercial work, including fashion shoots for the likes of Paul Smith and Louis Vuitton, and magazine features ... his pictures already use "the language of advertising", making them more accessible ... In 2004, Parr was the guest artistic director for Rencontre D'Arles
For the early black and white work it was a Leica M3 with a 35mm lens.
retrospective of Martin Parr's photographs of life in the U.S., taken over the past twenty years ... Parr's saturated photographs
Parr tried to photograph the essence of a country that's captivated him since the early 1990s when he was a professor at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki
photographer Martin Parr, who is also an authority on photography books.
Black Country Women / Martin Parr (Multistory) Nosey Parr-ker hits it out of the park with this hysterically funny yet humane look at working-class women in the English West Midlands.
Parr's signature is his ability not only to isolate the most evocative of human details, but to elevate such visual fragments to that of the wider societal signpost or glyph. His celebrated British Food series
Parr worked briefly at Butlins in Filey, Yorkshire, as a "walkie" – roving photographer – and was later instrumental in the revival of Hinde's work in the 1980s.
Imagine... The World According to Parr (BBC1) ... He is a passionate collector of things that are going, going, gone. Everything must have a photograph on it. "I have been collecting wallpaper for 30 years. Concorde wallpaper, ET wallpaper, the Beatles. Once you start it's hard to give up. Ah!" he pounced on a cardboard box, "The Spice Girls ephemera!" He spread his collection of tin trays on the floor and his watches with Saddam Hussein on the face. When he is in London he adds to his collection of prostitutes' cards from phone boxes.
This photograph can be found in Print Room Box 14a.
Parr tried to photograph the essence of a country that's captivated him since the early 1990s when he was a professor at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki
