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Martin Parr New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-85

Martin Parr

B. United Kingdom, 1952

All Works (45)Biography

The Works

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Lunch for a Couple, Ramsgate, Kent, from ‘Home and Abroad’, 1986 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Lunch for a Couple, Ramsgate, Kent, from ‘Home and Abroad’

1986

Archival pigment print, printed later

Ramsgate, Kent, 1986 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Ramsgate, Kent

1986

Archival pigment print, printed later

Mid Summer Madness Party, 1989 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Mid Summer Madness Party

1989

Modern c-type print

Margate, Kent, 1986 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Margate, Kent

1986

Archival pigment print, printed later

Untitled (New Brighton) Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Untitled (New Brighton)

1983-85

C-type print

Untitled (New Brighton), from ‘The Last Resort’ Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Untitled (New Brighton), from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-1985

Archival pigment print, printed later

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-85 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-85

Archival pigment print, printed later

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-85 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-85

Archival pigment print, printed later

Untitled (New Brighton), from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-1985 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Untitled (New Brighton), from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-1985

Archival pigment print, printed later

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-85 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-85

Archival pigment print, printed later

Untitled (New Brighton) Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Untitled (New Brighton)

1983-85

C-type print

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’, 1983-85 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

New Brighton, from ‘The Last Resort’

1983-85

Archival pigment print, printed later

Steep Lane Baptist Chapel, West Yorkshire Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Steep Lane Baptist Chapel, West Yorkshire

1977

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Crimsworth Dean Methodist Chapel, West Yorkshire Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Crimsworth Dean Methodist Chapel, West Yorkshire

1975

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Steep Lane Baptist Church Buffet Lunch, Calderdale, Halifax, West Yorkshire Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Steep Lane Baptist Church Buffet Lunch, Calderdale, Halifax, West Yorkshire

1976

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Manchester Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Manchester

1971

Archival pigment print, printed later

Untitled, from ‘Butlins by the Sea’, 1972 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Untitled, from ‘Butlins by the Sea’

1972

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Jubilee Street Party, Elland, Yorkshire, 1977 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Jubilee Street Party, Elland, Yorkshire

1977

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Mr and Mrs Connolley Practise Dancing in the Otherwise Unused Booth Chapel Sunday School, Booth, West Yorkshire, 1976 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Mr and Mrs Connolley Practise Dancing in the Otherwise Unused Booth Chapel Sunday School, Booth, West Yorkshire

1976

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Surrey Bird Club, Surrey, 1972 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Surrey Bird Club, Surrey

1972

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Stratford Upon Avon, 1974 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Stratford Upon Avon

1974

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England, 1977 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England

1977

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, from ‘Bad Weather’, March 1980 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, from ‘Bad Weather’, March

1980

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Abandoned Morris Minors, Arigna, County Roscommon, 1980-1983, from ‘A Fair Day’ Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Abandoned Morris Minors, Arigna, County Roscommon, from ‘A Fair Day’

1980-1983

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Seafront, Blackpool, 1977 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Seafront, Blackpool

1977

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Rosses Point, County Sligo, from ‘A Fair Day’, 1983 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Rosses Point, County Sligo, from ‘A Fair Day’

1983

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Glenbeigh Races, County Kerry, Ireland, 1983 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Glenbeigh Races, County Kerry, Ireland

1983

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Wheldrake, North Yorkshire, 1980 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Wheldrake, North Yorkshire

1980

Silver gelatin print, printed later

North Yorkshire, Harrogate, Brimham Rocks, 1974 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

North Yorkshire, Harrogate, Brimham Rocks

1974

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Jubilee Street Party, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, 1977 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Jubilee Street Party, Todmorden, West Yorkshire

1977

Silver gelatin print, printed later

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-On-Sea, East Sussex

1978

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, from ‘Beauty Spots’, 1975 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, from ‘Beauty Spots’

1975

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Boulderclough Methodist Chapel, Anniversary Tea, Calderdale, from ‘The Non-Conformists’, 1978 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Boulderclough Methodist Chapel, Anniversary Tea, Calderdale, from ‘The Non-Conformists’

1978

Silver gelatin print, printed later

Mayor of Todmorden’s Inaugural Banquet, Calderdale, 1976 Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Mayor of Todmorden’s Inaugural Banquet, Calderdale

1976

Silver gelatin print, printed later

It’s Not Stuff That Run-Of-The-Mill People Would Have in Their Homes Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

It’s Not Stuff That Run-Of-The-Mill People Would Have in Their Homes

1991

C-type print, printed later

I Don’t Think it’s Anything Particularly Forced on Deborah, We’ve Just Always Enjoyed the Same Sort of ThingsEach to Their Own But I Think This is Going to be One of the Best – if Not the Best – Houses on the Estate Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Each to Their Own But I Think This is Going to be One of the Best – if Not the Best – Houses on the Estate

1991

C-type print, printed later

I Don’t Think it’s Anything Particularly Forced on Deborah, We’ve Just Always Enjoyed the Same Sort of Things Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

I Don’t Think it’s Anything Particularly Forced on Deborah, We’ve Just Always Enjoyed the Same Sort of Things

1991

C-type print, printed later

It Still Feels as Though we are Living in a Hotel Suite. I Want to Pick up the Phone and Ring for Room Service Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

It Still Feels as Though we are Living in a Hotel Suite. I Want to Pick up the Phone and Ring for Room Service

1991

C-type print, printed later

When I Looked at the Wallpaper and the Wallpaper Looked at me we Instantly Fell in Love Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

When I Looked at the Wallpaper and the Wallpaper Looked at me we Instantly Fell in Love

1991

C-type print, printed later

Dramatic, Glamorous, Over-The-Top. I Think That’s What We’re Looking For Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

Dramatic, Glamorous, Over-The-Top. I Think That’s What We’re Looking For

1991

C-type print, printed later

We Wanted a Cottagey Stately Home Kind of Feel Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

We Wanted a Cottagey Stately Home Kind of Feel

1991

C-type print, printed later

Martin Parr I-Get-Such-Pleasure-From-Them-Every-Day-When-I-Sit-In-The-Bath
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Martin Parr

I Get Such Pleasure from them Every Day When I Sit in the Bath

1991

C-type print, printed later

The House Came with Everything Right Down to the Bars of Soap Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

The House Came with Everything Right Down to the Bars of Soap

1991

C-type print, printed later

We Keep Buying Things Thinking ‘That’ll Look Better’ and it Just Doesn’t Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

We Keep Buying Things Thinking ‘That’ll Look Better’ and it Just Doesn’t

1991

C-type print, printed later

It’s this Edwardian Look that we’re Trying to Achieve from the Bottom Right Up to the Top of the House Martin Parr
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Martin Parr

It’s this Edwardian Look that we’re Trying to Achieve from the Bottom Right Up to the Top of the House

1991

C-type print, printed later

Martin Parr

B. United Kingdom 1952

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B. United Kingdom 1952

Biography

Martin Parr’s distinctive style of photography captures the oddities and humours of everyday British life through a vibrantly coloured, hyper-realistic lens. At the beginning of the 1980s Parr’s work aimed to mirror the lifestyle of ordinary British people, reflecting the social decline and distress of the working class during the era of Margaret Thatcher. He earned an international reputation for his oblique approach to social documentary, and for innovative imagery. The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton (1986) was Parr’s first project to show a move towards his now distinct personal style: bright colours and vivid images, gaining him the reputation as a renowned satirical photojournalist. Other of Parr’s series include Bad Weather (1982), Common Sense (1995-99), and Signs of the Times (1992).

Parr was born in Surrey in 1952, later studying Photography at Manchester Polytechnic. He has exhibited his work globally since 1974, including exhibitions at The National Portrait Gallery and The Photographer’s Gallery, London, The National Centre of Photography, Paris and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan. Parr is prolific in his output and has published over a hundred books of his own work. He has won many awards throughout his career including the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Award, Photokina’s Eric Solomon Award for photojournalism and in 2017, Sony World Photography Award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography. Parr was the president of Magnum Photos between 2013 – 2017, and remains one of the country’s most popular photojournalists, contributing to a wide range of printed media. Parr founded the Martin Parr Foundation in 2014, opening its premises in Bristol in 2017. The Foundation holds Parr’s own archive, and is a centre for talks, screenings and events. 

He lives and works in Bristol.

Martin Parr is represented by Rocket Gallery.

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All Texts (10)

Exhibitions

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Ramsgate, Kent, 1986 Martin Parr

Martin Parr: Early Work, 1971-1986

15.5 - 9.62018

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I Don’t Think it’s Anything Particularly Forced on Deborah, We’ve Just Always Enjoyed the Same Sort of Things Martin Parr

Martin Parr: Signs Of The Times

15.7 - 29.82014

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