Martin Parr

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged

by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison  · 28 Jan 2019

this publication. Policy Press works to counter discrimination on grounds of gender, race, disability, age and sexuality. Cover design by Lyn Davies Front cover image: Martin Parr, Cartier Polo. 1998. G.B England. Ascot. 1998, Magnum Photos. Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow Policy Press uses environmentally responsible

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print partners For our daughters, Cora, Skye, Ingrid and Freja The cover photograph of this book was taken by Martin Parr at Ascot racecourse in 1998. One of Britain’s most renowned photographers, and certainly the most celebrated chronicler of the class system, Parr took this

Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain

by John Grindrod  · 2 Nov 2013  · 578pp  · 141,373 words

where public housing has been sold off for a long-elapsed economic kick. For my obsession with the postwar rebuilding of Britain I partly blame Martin Parr’s collection of Boring Postcards, published in 1999. It triggered something in me, a desire to reconnect with something I’d long suppressed: my interest

Coal Black Mornings

by Brett Anderson  · 1 Mar 2018  · 118pp  · 42,837 words

body. For the rest of the holiday I wandered alone around the grotty, vomit-washed streets, disconnected and melancholy and wing-manless, locked in a Martin Parr hell of ‘Choose Life’ T-shirts and fried breakfasts, the heady promise of reckless, jolly escapades reduced to a bitter fantasy spotlit by the cold

Pocket Rough Guide Berlin (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 16 Oct 2019  · 212pp  · 49,082 words

its foundation back in 2000, C/O Berlin has hosted some of the city’s best photography exhibitions, with shows featuring international heavyweights such as Martin Parr, Annie Leibovitz, Rene Burri and Karl Lagerfeld. In 2014, C/O Berlin moved from Mitte to West Berlin’s Amerika Haus, where it hosted open

The Rough Guide to Berlin

by Rough Guides  · 550pp  · 151,946 words

its foundation back in 2000, C/O Berlin has hosted some of the city’s best photography exhibitions, with shows featuring international heavyweights such as Martin Parr, Annie Leibovitz, René Burri and Karl Lagerfeld. Previously occupying a gorgeous post office in Mitte, it moved to West Berlin’s Amerika Haus in 2014

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft

by Mike Sacks  · 8 Jul 2009  · 588pp  · 193,087 words

The Time Machine Did It; Dead Men Scare Me Stupid; How I Conquered Your Planet; The Exploding Detective; Double Wonderful — John Swartzwelder Boring Postcards USA — Martin Parr A Practical Guide to Racism — C.H. Dalton The Best of Scharpling and Wurster (CDs) — Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster Apocalypse How: Turn the End

The Rough Guide to Paris

by Rough Guides  · 1 May 2023  · 688pp  · 190,793 words

as you might expect from the soaring, light-filled foyer, but it’s one of the top venues for major retrospectives of photographers such as Martin Parr and Edward Steichen. There’s also a small café and a good bookshop. Musée de l’Orangerie Jardin des Tuileries, 1er • Wed–Mon 9am–6pm