Think of England - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0714844543 ISBN 13: 9780714844541

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Think of England

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Review:

"An accessible and funny study into the soul-searching debate about the very nature of Englishness."―Pride of Britain

"Parr provides the definitive picture of English egg-and-chintz."―British Journal of Photography

"An affectionately satirical study of the English identity... The effect is both reassuring and disturbing."―Daily Telegraph

"100 colour images... that transform the kitsch, the clichéd and the common into the sublime."―Evening Standard

"A wryly ambivalent amble through the commonplaces of his home country."―New York Times

"Zeroing in on the abundant clichés of his green and pleasant land and pushing them as far as they’ll go."―The Wall Street Journal

"Uses supersaturated colors and a satirical eye to paint a portrait of his motherland that is both comical and despairing."―American Photo

Synopsis:

Magnum photographer Martin Parr's vision of contemporary England in 100 colour photographs. England has been the key subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr's work since he started making pictures. Think of England is a comic, opinionated, affectionately satirical, colour-saturated essay about the character of England. It is composed of new work shot in 1999 along with work shot recently for projects on West Bay, British food, and flowers. Quintessentially English himself, Parr's great achievement as a photographer is his ability to transform the obvious into the surprising, reinventing cliches of Englishness as provocative revelations. His tour of obvious England takes in seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, the bring and buy stall, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, Ascot and the charity shop, blotchy skin, baked beans and bad footwear...Martin's work has already added to the visual vocabulary of England; this book, his first specifically on the subject of England, stretches it further. Simultaneously affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs are shot with a ring flash camera (normally used for medical photographs), which has been his medium of choice for the la

About this edition

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0714844543
• ISBN 13: 9780714844541
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144