THE TENDER ALBION - Martin Parr
England has always been a favorite subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr. La Tendre Albion is a funny, dogmatic, affectionately satirical and colorful photographic essay on the identity of England. At a time when Scotland and Wales are consolidating their status as nations and Britain is beginning to give ground, this book reopens the debate on what it means to be English today.
An Englishman at heart himself, Martin Parr's great achievement as a photographer is to be able to make the obvious surprising, and to reinvent clichés ofAnglitude as provocative revelations. Parr's English journey takes in Ascot, seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, rummage sales, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, white beans in tomato sauce and naughty shoes. Parr had already enriched the visual vocabulary of England; this book, the first specifically devoted to his country, cleverly continues the work. At once affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs were taken with a ring-flash camera (usually used for medical photography), which Parr has been using for the past four years.
Published by Phaidon, 2000
19.5 cm x 27.5 cm, 144 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9780714891217
England has always been a favorite subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr. La Tendre Albion is a funny, dogmatic, affectionately satirical and colorful photographic essay on the identity of England. At a time when Scotland and Wales are consolidating their status as nations and Britain is beginning to give ground, this book reopens the debate on what it means to be English today.
An Englishman at heart himself, Martin Parr's great achievement as a photographer is to be able to make the obvious surprising, and to reinvent clichés ofAnglitude as provocative revelations. Parr's English journey takes in Ascot, seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, rummage sales, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, white beans in tomato sauce and naughty shoes. Parr had already enriched the visual vocabulary of England; this book, the first specifically devoted to his country, cleverly continues the work. At once affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs were taken with a ring-flash camera (usually used for medical photography), which Parr has been using for the past four years.
Published by Phaidon, 2000
19.5 cm x 27.5 cm, 144 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9780714891217
England has always been a favorite subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr. La Tendre Albion is a funny, dogmatic, affectionately satirical and colorful photographic essay on the identity of England. At a time when Scotland and Wales are consolidating their status as nations and Britain is beginning to give ground, this book reopens the debate on what it means to be English today.
An Englishman at heart himself, Martin Parr's great achievement as a photographer is to be able to make the obvious surprising, and to reinvent clichés ofAnglitude as provocative revelations. Parr's English journey takes in Ascot, seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, rummage sales, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, white beans in tomato sauce and naughty shoes. Parr had already enriched the visual vocabulary of England; this book, the first specifically devoted to his country, cleverly continues the work. At once affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs were taken with a ring-flash camera (usually used for medical photography), which Parr has been using for the past four years.
Published by Phaidon, 2000
19.5 cm x 27.5 cm, 144 pages, very good condition
ISBN 9780714891217
