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Book Description: Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2002. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Printed paper covered boards, quarter-bound in 'leatherette,' with title stamped in pink on front cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued. First page of introduction stamped in gilt on front cover. Photographs by Martin Parr. Text by Val Williams. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. Designed by UNA (London). 354 pp., with over 600 four-color and black and white images, beautifully printed on fine heavy paper. 10-1/8 x 11-3/4 inches. CONDITION: New in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the publisher: "This Martin Parr retrospective is rich in the wit and colour that Parr's work is best known for, but also offers the first serious assessment of the career of this major contemporary photographer. Parr combines an urge to document with a bemusement about social behavior. Author Val Williams, a distinguished writer and curator, considers his better known later work in the context of his full career and in so doing shows how Parr's photographs have highlighted political and social change over the last thirty years. While Parr began his career in Britain, he now has a large international following. This book offers the overview that many have eagerly awaited. It features fascinating previously unpublished early work, his startling and original 1974 installation Home Sweet Home, early black and white photographs of the people and places of Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire where he lived and worked in the 1970s, photographs from Ireland and Salford, and of course a selection of the very best images from all his published books including The Last Resort, The Cost of Living, Signs of the Times and Think of England (published by Phaidon). With unlimited access to Parr's archives and quoting from extensive interviews, Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and assessing his importance within the worlds of art and photography. Bookseller Inventory # 101613

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Book Description: Phaidon, London, 2002. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A hardcover copy of Val Williams' comprehensive monograph on Martin Parr, published in 2002 by Phaidon Press. SIGNED on the title page by Martin Parr. This is in AS NEW condition. The photography of Martin Parr is deserving of this rich, insightful, and thorough retrospective by photographic historian Val Williams. Covering both famous and unknown phases in his impressive career, Williams highlights Parr's sense of the absurd as the thing that makes his photos not only amusing and entertaining, but also socially relevant. He exposes the absurdity all around us as symptoms of a directionless culture, overwhelmed by consumerism and sloth. But his touch is light and he never becomes preachy. The world is what it is, he seems to say. We can either choose to acknowledge it or not. FROM THE PUBLISHER: "This Martin Parr (b.1952) retrospective is rich in the wit and colour for which Parr's work is well known, yet simultaneously offers the first ever serious assessment of the career of this major contemporary photographer. Parr combines an urge to document with an attitude of incisive bemusement by social behaviour. Val Williams, distinguished writer and curator, considers Parr's later work - also his most famous - within the context of his full career. In so doing, she shows how Parr's subtle and striking photographs have highlighted political and social change over the last 30 years. Although Parr began his career in Britain, he now has a wide international following. This book offers the overview that many have eagerly anticipated. It features fascinating previously unpublished early work, his startling and original 1974 installation 'Home Sweet Home,' early black-and-white photographs of the people and places of Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire where he lived and worked in the 1970s, photographs from Ireland and Salford, and of course a selection of the very best images from all his published books including The Last Resort, The Cost of Living, Signs of the Times and Think of England (published by Phaidon). With unlimited access to Parr's archives and drawing on extensive interviews, Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and assessing his importance within the worlds of art and photography." This handsome volume is a hardcover with leather covers and cloth binding - no dust jacket, as issued. "Martin Parr" is stamped vertically in pink on the maroon binding and the book's text begins in a paragraph on the cover. Features an index of plates and a bibliography and exhibition history. 352 pages with 400 color and 150 black-and-white reproductions. Measures 10 x 11 3/4. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # MP-MP-abe

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