- Paperback: 72 pages
- Publisher: BBC Books (17 Mar 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563369841
- ISBN-13: 978-0563369844
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 22.8 x 1 cm
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Tying in with a BBC 2 series, this is a comedy of manners about car ownership in Britain, and consists primarily of Martin Parr's off-beat photographs. It explores the fantasies, aspirations and self-image of single women, who feel in some way empowered by their cars. It also examines the life and times of the company-car driver, indulging in rituals such as the hanging of the suit jacket in the back of the car. Other aspects include the physical landscape - including roadside architecture as seen in the nineties, road markings and road signs, motorway service stations, NCP car parks and billboard car advertising; the journeys - featuring commuting, shopping, teenage cruising, business trips, joyriding, collecting and delivering children and family and holiday excursions; leisure activities - car boot sales, back-seat sex, safari parks, flat-pack shopping at IKEA, car stereos, children's songs and car games and killing time in traffic jams; driving manners and etiquette - incompetent, impatient and aggressive driving, filthy cars, Vodaphone usage, family rows, map-reading, back-seat driving, nosepicking and farting!; the quest for the right car through "Exchange and Mart", car auctions, "Top Gear", TV advertising and car salerooms; the lifestages - kids in booster seats, infant car conoisseurs, teenage and first-car users, thirty-somethings, divorcees, men in mid-life crisis and the elderly. Nick Barker is the producer and writer of the BBC tv series and books "From A to B" and "Signs of the Times".
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A quirky look at drivers in typical Parr fashion.
23 Sep 2005
This is a very nice collection of shots, mostly of people driving, apparently taken from a vehicle driving beside them. It was commisioned by Parr for a British Television show on motoring. The expressions caught on the driver's and passenger's faces is typical Parr style, and there are even some humorous quotes to go along with each photo. I believe there is even a video copy floating around in out-of-print video land of the show it was based on. This book seems to now be out of print, and with most of Parr's older out of print titles, they just seem to keep elevating in price, so grab it while you still can.
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