Martin Parr

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged
by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison
Published 28 Jan 2019

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 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 photo while working on a wider essay which gloriously visualised the symbols of class identity and class division at the turn of the 21st century. 

Coal Black Mornings
by Brett Anderson
Published 1 Mar 2018

On the first night, Simon became dehydrated after an evening of boozing and drank some tap-water to quench his thirst only to spend the next ten days in bed rolling around groaning and clutching his stomach as the gastro-enteritis he had developed worked its way through his 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 reality of my teenage diffidence as I found myself unable to mingle or meet. Ironically, decades later, the real beauty of the island would reveal itself as my wife introduced me to the quiet rural calm of the north where we would spend endless pampered, panting summers; the island’s other saltier side a strange and distant shadow.

Pocket Rough Guide Berlin (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 16 Oct 2019

In the large Kaisersaal, on the second floor, you’ll find the Kunstbibliothek’s collection, which explores all kinds of photography ranging from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. C/O Berlin (Amerika Haus) MAP Hardenbergstr. 22–24 Zoologischer Garten 030 28 44 41 60, co-berlin.org. Daily 11am–8pm. €10. Since 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-air exhibitions until the venue’s reopening later that year. Visitors can expect a high standard of curation and big-name retrospectives, as well as continued promotion of young and new local talent.

Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
by John Grindrod
Published 2 Nov 2013

We have moved from the postwar nationalisation of land to build everything from new towns to motorways, into an era where almost everything we think of as public space is actually private land, and 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 in my home town. I found in it page after page of delight and wonder. Parr’s collection showed pristine new town centres, ‘contemporary’ lift lobbies and gleaming airport lounges – the Britain I recognised from my childhood.

The Rough Guide to Berlin
by Rough Guides

The images from Newton’s deathbed are particularly stark. C/O Berlin Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstr. 22–24 • Daily 11am–8pm • €10 • 030 28 44 41 60, co-berlin.org • / Zoologischer Garten Since 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, where it has continued hosting big-name retrospectives like Sebastião Salgado as well as continued promotion of young and new international talents.

And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft
by Mike Sacks
Published 8 Jul 2009

— Bob Powers Rock On — Dan Kennedy We All Die Alone — Mark Newgarden Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions — Chris Regan Ghost World; David Boring; Twentieth Century Eightball — Daniel Clowes Ghost World: A Screenplay — Daniel Clowes and Terry Zwigoff 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-Times into the Best of Times! — Rob Kutner Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-Inspected Cartoons by Roz Chast, 1978–2006 — Roz Chast Elementary Education — Mark O'Donnell Oh, the Humanity!

The Rough Guide to Paris
by Rough Guides
Published 1 May 2023

Jeu de Paume 1 place de la Concorde, 1er • Tues–Fri 12am–8pm, Sat & Sun 11am–7pm • Charge; tickets can be booked online in advance • www.jeudepaume.org • MConcorde The Jeu de Paume was once a royal (indoor) tennis court and the place where French Impressionist paintings were displayed before being transferred to the Musée d’Orsay. Since 2004 it’s been a major exhibition space dedicated to photography and video art. The building is not as well lit 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 • Charge; book in advance as queues can be long • http://www.musee-orangerie.fr • MConcorde Opposite the Jeu de Paume is the Musée de l’Orangerie, an elegant, neoclassical-style building, originally designed to protect the Tuileries’ orange trees, and now housing a private art collection including eight of Monet’s giant water lily paintings.