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In this major retrospective, the whole of Martin Parr's career has been assessed and includes previously unpublished early work.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"" and ""Signs of the Times"". With unlimited access to Parr's archives and quoting from extensive interviews, writer and curator Val Williams charts Parr's life and career, revealing insights into his influences and attitudes and setting him in a new context in assessing his importance as an artist. The book also includes illustrative photographs of Parr and the people and places of his career and a special appendix shows some of his many collections of ephemera from wallpaper to commemorative plates, lapel badges to souvenir models of Lenin and JFK.

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Martin Parr is arguably Britain's key contemporary photographer, with a unique point of view and unmistakable signature, with a critical and popular following in the worlds of art, fashion and journalism. He has been widely published and exhibited internationally. His work features in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, amongst others. Books of his photographs include Bad Weather (1982), The Last Resort (1986), The Cost of Living (1989), Small World (1995) and Common Sense (1999). He is also the author of the Boring Postcards books and Think of England for Phaidon. He has been a member of the Magnum photographic agency since 1994. Photographer's Residence: Bristol, UK

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