Utterly Lazy and Inattentive: Martin Parr in Words and Pictures - Couverture souple

Parr, Martin; Jones, Wendy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1802068716 ISBN 13 : 9781802068719

Editeur : Penguin, 2026

Synopsis

That’s very much one of my techniques: just hang around. Loitering with intent.

When Martin Parr was fourteen, his teacher wrote that he was ‘utterly lazy and inattentive’ in a school report. He went on to become one of the most successful and sought-after photographers in the world. In his lifetime, Martin would publish over one hundred photobooks on subjects from seaside resorts to smoking. In this book, for the first and only time, Martin tells his own story, in his own words.

This is the definitive account of a great photographer’s work, life and times. It gathers over 150 of Martin’s photographs with his recollections and reflections, his distinctive voice delicately captured by his friend, the writer Wendy Jones. We see him exploding into the public consciousness in the late eighties with a series of startling, ultra-saturated colour images of the British seaside – and scandalising the photography establishment in the process. As society changes over the decades, Martin’s particular passions remain: crowds and queues, fetes and placards, bad weather on beaches. Looking at the world through his eyes and his lens, we come away seeing Martin Parr – and ourselves – a little differently.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Parr is one of the world’s most famous and successful photographers, particularly celebrated as a searing and witty documentarian of British life. He holds the Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous photography exhibition: on 1st April 1999, Common Sense was shown simultaneously at 41 galleries around the world. Today, there is always at least one Parr show on somewhere in the world.


Wendy Jones is a writer based in London. She is the author of seven books, including the bestselling Grayson Perry, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths on writing interview-based biographies, and her books have been published in eleven languages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1802068716
• ISBN 13: 9781802068719
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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