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…
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49 days ago
Moment drug-driver leads police on 140mph chase before BMW crashes into roundabout and somersaults through the air ○
Ashley Parr, 35, reached 140mph as he tried to evade police on the A64 near York on July 21 last year.
50 days ago
Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory ⊕⊕
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
I didn’t …
2 months ago
Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook ⊕
Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant’s AI research unit
Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networ…
5 months ago
‘Like a rock star’: the global reverence for Martin Parr’s class-conscious photography ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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…
‘I drunkenly hugged him and said I love you, Martin Parr!’ Grayson Perry, Don McCullin and more on Britain’s national photographer ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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
Grayson Perry, artist
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6 months ago
‘He made the mundane magnificent’: Martin Parr could make a chip shop as mighty as a cathedral ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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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Acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73 ○
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a story from Al Jazeera 🚨 › Al Jazeera English
A chronicler of the everyday, Parr made work famed for its biting observations delivered in highly saturated colour.
Martin Parr, photographer acclaimed for observations of British life, dies aged 73 ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
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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Pictured: E-bike rider, 61, who died when he crashed into two pedestrians ⊖⊖
Jason Parr was killed instantly after his e-bike smashed into walkers on Rochdale Road, Blackley, in Manchester on Monday night.