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Martin Parr

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37 days ago

Pictures from photographer’s return to Lacock after 40 years were taken months before his death last December

The images are colourful, characterful and thought-provoking. They capture a flower show, …

55 days ago

The photographer loved to record the small details of life, so it was only fitting that his family should organise a send-off inspired by his work. ‘Funerals can be really beautiful,’ says the person…

3 months ago

Jeu de Paume, Paris
The peerless chronicler of everyday absurdity did not live to see this exhibition, but it is a dazzling final chapter, showing his irresistible good humour growing darker

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5 months ago

The iconic photographer believed his two years shooting horse fairs, pubs and dance halls in the 1980s had been overlooked. A new exhibition aims to put that right

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7 months ago

Unfettered love for late photographer in France and elsewhere stands in contrast to occasional reservations in UK

The death of Martin Parr, the photographer whose work chronicled the rituals and cust…

With a sharp eye and saturated colours, Parr’s photographs revealed the world in all its eccentric glory. Here, his friends, peers and collaborators pay tribute to a master

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A brilliantly human photographer, he celebrated the overlooked, finding beauty in cheese sandwiches at a church fete or people queuing for ice cream at the beach – all while poking fun at Britishness

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He is being remembered for his famous, kitschy, colour-saturated images, which highlight all elements of life in Britain and beyond.
A chronicler of the everyday, Parr made work famed for its biting observations delivered in highly saturated colour.

From sunbathers to Conservative clubs, Parr’s images were often in vivid colour with more than a dash of humour

  • ‘There’s something very interesting about boring’: Martin Parr on his life in pictures

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