Martin Parr: Difference between revisions

▲== Parr is a collector and critic of photobooks.<ref name="liz-jobey-ft">{{cite news |url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/83acb960-a981-11e3-9b71-00144feab7de.html | date = 14 March 2014 | access-date = 15 March 2014 | first= Liz | last= Jobey | newspaper = [[Financial Times]] | title = Collecting with the FT: Martin Parr | quote = We are here to talk about his books but Parr collects pretty much everything, from Chinese Mao-era tea caddies to miniature televisions, commemorative plates to cigarette cases decorated with Soviet space-dogs ... his most enduring legacy is likely to be the 12,000 photography books he has collected over the past 35 years. What began as a hobby has developed into a mission to change the way the history of photography is defined and understood. As a collector, he has discovered, documented and promoted previously unknown areas of photographic bookmaking.}}</ref><ref name="bbc-imagine">[[Imagine (TV series)]], Season 2, Episode 4, The World According to Parr, 3 December 2003</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Why-Gerhard-Steidl-I-8777.shtml | date = 13 August 2013 | access-date = 30 July 2014 | last = Walker | first = David | publisher = [[Photo District News]] | title = Why Gerhard Steidl Is a Book Publishing Master | quote = photographer Martin Parr, who is also an authority on photography books.}}</ref> His collaboration with the critic [[Gerry Badger]], ''The Photobook: A History'' (in three volumes) covers more than 1,000 examples of photobooks from the 19th century through to the present day. The first two volumes took eight years to complete.<ref name="MPI" /> Tate Modern's retrospective exhibition of [[Daidō Moriyama]] in London included many Moriyama books loaned from Parr displayed in vitrines. ==