- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Chris Boot (26 May 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905712081
- ISBN-13: 978-1905712083
- Product Dimensions: 31 x 19 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 470,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Martin Parr has becomewell known for his collections of photography books and postcards,but he is also a jackdawcollector of photographic and other themed objects.Some collections have already achieved notoriety â for instance his collection of Saddam Husseinwatches (wrist watches featuring photographs of Saddam Hussein, highly popular in Iraq prior to his downfall), and his collection of photographic trays, both exhibited at the 2004 Rencontres dâArles festival in southern France â but until nowthey have not been published in book form.This comprehensive account of eccentric objects collected by Parr over 25 years includes his memorabilia of political leaders and movements (Lenin, Margaret Thatcher and the Minerâs strike, for example), othermythologized characters (Osama bin Laden and the Spice Girls), his collections of photographic trays and kitschwallpaper, objects commemorating the M1 motorway, 9/11, and the Sputnik mission. Ranging between the banal and poignant, they are always hilarious.
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Martin's other side
2 April 2010
Format:Hardcover
I reckon creative folk have a built-in collecting bug. I recently looked through the Passionate Collector, an intriguing photo book about people who focused on single theme collections: the predictable dolls but also Edsels; crawler tractors; sewing machines or antique tools for example and I noticed that many of them worked professionally in some creative job (this sort of applies to me because years ago I managed to collect just over five hundred radio station T-shirts, now boxed, in the attic and waiting for that book offer).
Martin Parr isn't quite in the same league because he doesn't specialize in just one subject but accumulates anything that visually appeals to him though he is well on the way to having a fine selection of printed ephemera and bric-a-brac connected to the 1984/5 miners strike in England, Saddam Hussein wristwatches and Soviet space program desk ornaments with rockets, attached to flimsy bits of wire, zooming off round a miniature globe. The ones I liked best are trays with stunningly dreadful still-life color photos on them, just too good to eat a TV dinner off of while watching the box.
Though these mostly kitsch items are mildly interesting to look at I thought the book was very bland. The objects are shown as cutouts on each page with no text. Maybe some of the photographer's thoughts about the significance of the items, written in his own hand, would have brightened up the pages. The title spread looks very minimalist, not even a photo of the Parr surrounded by his collection.
Incidentally, the publisher's have a hinged velvet lined box with the book, I don't know if it's a signed copy, a Royal Doulton Margaret Thatcher plate and perhaps most bizarrely, a 1996 Cadbury's Spice Girls candy bar (could this be edible?) in a limited edition of fifty copies. Yours for £500 or the equivalent in local currency.
***SEE INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
Martin Parr isn't quite in the same league because he doesn't specialize in just one subject but accumulates anything that visually appeals to him though he is well on the way to having a fine selection of printed ephemera and bric-a-brac connected to the 1984/5 miners strike in England, Saddam Hussein wristwatches and Soviet space program desk ornaments with rockets, attached to flimsy bits of wire, zooming off round a miniature globe. The ones I liked best are trays with stunningly dreadful still-life color photos on them, just too good to eat a TV dinner off of while watching the box.
Though these mostly kitsch items are mildly interesting to look at I thought the book was very bland. The objects are shown as cutouts on each page with no text. Maybe some of the photographer's thoughts about the significance of the items, written in his own hand, would have brightened up the pages. The title spread looks very minimalist, not even a photo of the Parr surrounded by his collection.
Incidentally, the publisher's have a hinged velvet lined box with the book, I don't know if it's a signed copy, a Royal Doulton Margaret Thatcher plate and perhaps most bizarrely, a 1996 Cadbury's Spice Girls candy bar (could this be edible?) in a limited edition of fifty copies. Yours for £500 or the equivalent in local currency.
***SEE INSIDE THE BOOK by clicking 'customer images' under the cover.
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