Parr, Martin

Martin Parr ( born Martin Parr ; born May 23, 1952 , Epsom , Surrey ) is a modern English photographer and photo journalist , representative of documentary photography .

Exhibition Planet Parr, Paris (2009)

M. Parr studied photography from 1970 to 1973 at the Metropolitan University of Manchester (then the Polytechnic . In addition to professional photography, he also engaged in teaching. Since 1994, M. Parr is a member of the Magnum Photos agency, despite the fact that there was serious opposition within this organization. , who didn’t want to receive a photo artist, a number of critics considered Parr’s art style as provocative and his photographic work as a mockery of others. He usually works with a small format camera Using a flash (even during the day).

Parr’s works, in fact, in contrast to the familiar viewer of photo art, rather embellishing reality, show the gray and boring everyday life, the joyless withering of old people, the ugly and ridiculous aspects of human existence. A documentary photographer of everyday life, M. Parr is also a collector - photographs of other photographers similar to his work, postcards covered with images of small items and commodity packaging. Parr publishes this collection in several albums and shows at exhibitions. M. Parr's own photographs are also published in separate books (of which more than 20 have already been published). Thanks to numerous successful exhibitions in the USA and Europe, M. Parr is currently one of the most famous British photographers.