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Martin  Parr:   Untitled (two photographs)
 
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Description
Artist: Parr Martin
Title: Untitled (two photographs)
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 2000s
Medium: Photographs, Chromogenic (C-print)
Year: 2004
Print/Casting Year: ie. circa 2004
Size: height - 10 in, width - 8 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, and dated 2004 on verso. NB: The second photograph of the woman with necklace is unsigned.
Estimate: from $600 to $800

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Martin Parr, Untitled, 2004. C-Print, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Signed and dated. (man in white shirt holding wine glass)

Martin Parr, Untitled, 2004. C-print, 10 x 8 inches, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Unsigned. (woman wearing necklace)

Martin Parr
British, b. 1952
Martin Parr was born in Epsom, Surrey. As a boy, his interest in photo-graphy was encouraged by his grandfather George Parr, himself a keen amateur photographer.

Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970 to 1973. To support his career as a freelance photographer, he took on various teaching assignments between 1975 and the early 1990s. At the beginning of the 1980s his work aimed to mirror the lifestyle of ordinary British people, reflecting the social decline and distress of the working class during the era of Margaret Thatcher. He earned an international reputation for his oblique approach to social documentary, and for innovative imagery. In 1994 he became a member of Magnum after much heated debate over his provocative photographic style.

For Parr, the moral atrophy and preposterousness of our daily lives means we can only find salvation through adopting a certain sense of humor. The banality, boredom and lack of meaning of modern times are portrayed in works such as Bored Couples and Common Sense.
In 2002 Phaidon published the monograph Martin Parr. A large retrospective of Parr's work was initiated by the Barbican Art Gallery in London, and has since been shown in the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg.

Parr was appointed Professor of Photography in 2004 at the University of Wales, and was Guest Artistic Director for Rencontres d'Arles in the same year. In recent years, he has developed an interest in film-making, and has started to use his photography in different contexts, such as fashion and advertising. [magnumphotos.com]
  • Condition Report
    • Current lot doesn't have any damage.
  • History & Provenance
    • Provenance:
      Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, Forida


      Publications:
      Books
      2006 The Photobook : A History, Vol II (with Gerry Badger), Phaidon, UK
      2006 Signes des temps, Textuel, France
      2005 Fashion Magazine, Magnum Photos, France
      2005 Martin Parr vu par..., Point de Vues, France
      2004 The Photobook : A History, Vol I (with Gerry Badger), Phaidon, UK;
      (Le Livre de photographies : Une Histoire, Vol I) Phaidon, France
      2002 Martin Parr, Phaidon, UK; Phaidon, France
      2000 Think of England, Phaidon, UK
      2000 Martin Parr: Autoportrait, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
      1999 Common Sense, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
      1999/01 Boring Postcards, Phaidon, UK; (Langweilige Postkarten) Germany
      1999 Sguardi Gardesoni, Chartra, Italy
      1999 Flowers, Browns and Trebruk, UK
      1995 Small World, Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
      1994 From A to B, BBC Books, UK
      1993 Home and Abroad, Jonathan Cape, UK
      1992 Sign of the Times, Cornerhouse, UK
      1992 Bored Couples, Galerie du Jour, France
      1989 The Cost of Living, Cornerhouse, UK
      1986/98 The Last Resort, Promenade Press, UK/Dewi Lewis Publishing, UK
      1984 A Fair Day, Promenade Press, UK
      1982 Bad Weather, Zwemmers, UK
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      Item Location: New York, USA
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Sales Results for Comparable Work

  • Martin Parr
    Not another Party!-Jeux de mains (2 works), 2004
    gelatin silver prints
    9.8 in. x 7.9 in. / 25.0 cm. x 20.0 cm.
    Signed

    Sold for US $843

    Ader:
    Wednesday, July 01, 2009, (Lot 00288)
    Photographies anciennes et modernes

  • Martin Parr
    Ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm (from Bored Couples), 1990
    c-print
    20.9 in. x 16.9 in. / 53.0 cm. x 43.0 cm.
    Signed, Inscribed

    ed.2/25

    Sold for US $1,417

    Van Ham Kunstauktionen:
    Monday, June 08, 2009, (Lot 00737)
    Photographie

  • Martin Parr
    Ohne Titel (Wolfsonian FIU), 2004
    c-print
    9.8 in. x 6.9 in. / 25.0 cm. x 17.5 cm.
    Signed

    ed.ed.10

    Sold for US $924

    Dr. Andreas Sturies:
    Saturday, May 16, 2009, (Lot 00120)
    Frühjahrsversteigerung

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