Martin Parr - Fashion Magazine

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this was brought up by rozzetta in the 'what magazines have you ..' thread.

from http://www.magnumphotos.com/

Fashion Magazine
"Fashion Magazine by Martin Parr", is a collector's item published by Magnum Photos. For this particular Fashion Magazine, Martin Parr did all of the fashion shoots as well as the illustrations for the magazine section and for the advertisements.

Almost half of the photographs are brand new and produced especially for this publication. Under the editorial direction of Laurence Benaïm-editor in chief of Stiletto magazine-and of Martin Bethenod-director of the Fiac art fair-prestigious personalities were invited to comment on these images: Christian Lacroix, Sonia Rykiel, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Victoire de Castellane, or Tamsin Blanchard, just to mention a few, were willing to pay tribute to this atypical artist by sharing their views on his pictures.

 

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short biography from magnumphotos

martin parr

British, b. 1952
Born in Epsom, Surrey, Martin Parr has studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic (1970-73) and gained early recognition in Europe and abroad as he won three successive awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain in the late 1970s.

To support his career as a freelance photographer, he took on various teaching assignments between 1975 and the early 1990s. Then, after much heated debate because of his provocative photographic style, he became a Magnum member in 1994, and his work has been widely exhibited in Europe and the United States and acquired by a large number of public collections.

In recent years Parr, a prolific photographer who best expresses himself through books, has continued shooting assignments in medium-format color, but has also experimented with fill-in flash and a 35mm ringflash camera. His subject matter continues to be the study of the idiocies of mass tourism as well as the spiritual crisis of the lower classes and the middle class. He shows us an environmentally destroyed world in which the major saving grace is a gritty, very British sense of humor. He has shot several film documentaries and a TV documentary, "Think of England".

 

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see also www.martinparr.com


pictures from 'fashion magazine'

 

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http://www.rocketgallery.com/ex_mp2.html