Martin Parr

This special edition limited to 70 copies includes the book and one gelatin silver print signed and numbered by Parr. The picture is titled Glenbeigh Races, County Kerry, 1983. The print measures 7 7/8 x 11 2/5 inches.

Martin Parr (born 1952) has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the most significant moments in Ireland’s recent history, encompassing the Pope’s visit in 1979, when a third of the country’s population attended Mass in Knock and Phoenix Park in Dublin, to gay weddings in 2019.

Parr lived in the West of Ireland between 1980 and 1982. He photographed traditional aspects of rural life such as horse fairs and dances, but also looked at the first hints of Ireland’s new wealth in the shape of the bungalows that were springing up everywhere, replacing more traditional dwellings.

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Martin Parr (born 1952) has been taking photographs in Ireland for 40 years. His work covers many of the most significant moments in Ireland’s recent history, encompassing the Pope’s visit in 1979, when a third of the country’s population attended Mass in Knock and Phoenix Park in Dublin, to gay weddings in 2019.

Parr lived in the West of Ireland between 1980 and 1982. He photographed traditional aspects of rural life such as horse fairs and dances, but also looked at the first hints of Ireland’s new wealth in the shape of the bungalows that were springing up everywhere, replacing more traditional dwellings. During subsequent trips to Ireland he explored the new estates around Dublin, documented the North and showed how, after the Good Friday agreement, the Troubles became the focus of a new tourist boom.

The final chapter of this book portrays a contemporary Dublin where start-up companies are thriving, the docks area is being gentrified and where icons of wealth and modernity are ubiquitous. Ireland has also now voted to allow both abortion and gay weddings, developments that would have been unthinkable 40 years ago. Parr published a book of his original black-and-white photographs in 1984. A Fair Day had an introduction by Fintan O’Toole, who subsequently became Ireland’s leading cultural commentator.

In ToiletMartin PaperParr Book, Martin Parr’s ironic, full-color images combine perfectly with the irreverent and poignant wit created by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Presented back to back, the 120 vibrant images included in this compelling volume are sensually and visually appealing, as well as reflecting reality. This book of the books shakes up our minds and leads us to move our gaze in multiple directions.

Martin Parr (born 1952) has published more than 100 books and edited another 30. He has curated two photography festivals (Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010); in 2016 he curated the Barbican exhibition Strange and Familiar. He has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 to 2017. Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017.

Since retiring from art, after his acclaimed 2011 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has committed himself to publishing Toilet Paper magazine. Cattelan also founded the art magazines Permanent Food and Charley. He curated the 4th Berlin Biennale with Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick; in 2018 he curated the exhibition The Artist Is Present at the Yuz Museum in Shanghai.

Pierpaolo Ferrari (born 1971) is a fashion and advertising photographer and creative researcher. In 2007, he began a collaboration with L’Uomo Vogue which offered him the chance to explore the portrait’s potential and radically change its codes. In 2009, he teamed up with Maurizio Cattelan to create Toilet Paper.

Portraiture emerges time and again as an abiding feature of the work of Martin Parr (born 1952), who inspires questions about how we live, present ourselves and view the world around us through his unique and characteristically entertaining photographs. This collection of 25 characteristic Parr postcards includes a selection of recent portraits by the photographer, featuring an array of both famous and anonymous faces. Among the celebrities portrayed here are Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes, Tracey Emin and Zadie Smith; also included are a self-portrait and portraits of people at the races, at the beach and rowing.

This limited edition of 90 copies includes a clothbound edition of the book and a numbered and signed archival pigment print by Parr. The picture is titled "St Ives, Cornwall, England, 2017."

During his long career as a photographer, Martin Parr has always photographed beaches, particularly in the UK. The beach is more than just a common subject for Parr; he has often used the beach as a laboratory to experiment with new cameras and techniques. For example, when Parr switched from working with black-and-white film to medium-format color in the early 1980s, he tested out his new approach on the beaches of New Brighton, a run-down seaside resort near Liverpool.

In recent years Parr has started exploring the beach with the aid of a telephoto lens. This lens is rarely used in the world of art and documentary photography, and Parr has experimented to find new ways to use its unique visual qualities, for example by incorporating the vegetation on the perimeter with the beach as a backdrop, both in and out of focus. Martin Parr: Beach Therapy focuses on this new body of work, the latest in his long experimental engagement with beaches and their users.

British photographer Martin Parr (born 1952) is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. The author of more than 90 books and the editor of 30 others, he has firmly established his photographic legacy. His influence in contemporary photography extends beyond his personal photography practice: he has curated many photography festivals and exhibitions and is a former president of Magnum Photos (of which he has been a member since 1994). Parr’s work is in the collections of many major museums, including the Tate, Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Martin Parr's (born 1952) Allotment Gardeners is a fond and humorous portrait of one of the great German clichés: the allotment gardener. Photographing in five allotments in Düsseldorf and Krefeld, Parr met Mathis, just 15 years old, who runs the garden for his father, a multigenerational operation growing strictly organic fruit and vegetables; he also spoke with young parents who share a garden; with Ingo the cactus breeder; with Michael the miniature train enthusiast and with Petra the "tomato woman.

As always, Parr's images achieve a rare balance of warmth and hilarity. "When people laugh and cry at the same time when looking at my pictures, that's precisely the reaction the pictures evoke in me," he says. "The things are neither fundamentally good, nor bad. I am always interested in portraying both extremes.

The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar for 2019 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. Toilet Paper is an artists' magazine created and produced by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, born out of a passion or obsession they both cultivate: images. The magazine contains no text; each picture springs from an idea, often simple, and through a complex orchestration of people it becomes the materialization of the artists' mental outbursts. Since the first issue in June 2010, Toilet Paper has created a world that displays ambiguous narratives and a troubling imagination.