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MARTIN PARR

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Recent images by Martin Parr/Magnum Photos Martin–a past Tóxico international guest–was in town a few days ago, to attend the opening of his expo at Centro de la Imagen. We ate ant eggs and enchiladas, we talked, we went to the Lucha Libre where Martin happily clicked clicked clicked his camera at the public while big [...]

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OBJECTS, BY MARTIN PARR

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Martin Parr is not only a photographer. He is also an almost obsessive collector.  He has a huge collection of Saddam Hussein watches, for example. He has made compilations and books of the ‘boring’ postcards he has gathered. He also has a house-full of photography books he has collected around the world. (When he was [...]

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Martin Parr – Parking Spaces

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Parking Spaces by Martin Parr, Limited Edition Chris Boot LTD Between 2002 and 2007, Martin Parr photographed ‘the last parking space’ available in 41 countries – somewhere you could have parked your car, had you been there at the time. Using a compact camera, and driven by wanting to express “the individual frustration of finding [...]

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