Description: Introduction to Postcards by Thomas Weski. Introduction to Objects by Martin Parr.
Brief description: Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography, recognized as a brilliant satirist of contemporary life. He has published over seventy photobooks of his photographs, including The Non-Conformists (Aperture, 2013), Black Country Stories (2014), and We Love Britain (2014). His work is also in the collections of museums worldwide, including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; and Tate Modern, London. Parr is a member of Magnum Photos.
Review Quotes: Parr's images captures the constantly changing theater of sandy seasides, from surfers and sunbathers to picnickers and newspaper readers. Tropical prints frame images shot in Parr's journalistic style, creating a nostalgic aesthetic that recalls a timeworn photo album. -Surface Magazine
A series of often hilarious beach tableaux--from grotesque sunbathers to bizarre shade contraptions and socks and sandals--Parr delivers a gentle mockery of humankind and their concepts of leisure. A colour-saturated collection, it charts four decades of interactions between people and the seashore across the world; from Italy to India to Australia -The Sydney Morning Herald
Parr has photographed beach culture for decades, and this beach-bag size collection captures quirky national behaviors around the globe. -The New York Times Book Review