Life's a Beach (signed)
by Martin Parr
Photographs: Martin Parr
Text: Martin Parr
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
32 pages
Pictures: 96 coloured photographs
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-2-36511-008-2
Comments: Signed and numbered limited-edition of 1,000; Japanese binding with canvas cover in a box set; 32 x 24 cm
“In the United Kingdom, one is never more than seventy-five miles away from the coast. With this much shoreline, it’s not surprising that there is a strong British tradition of photography by the seaside. American photographers may have given birth to Street photography; but in the U.K., we have the beach. Perhaps the natural outcome is Beach photography. Here people can relax, be themselves, and show off all those traces of mildly eccentric British behaviour.
I’ve photographed the beach over many decades, documenting all aspects of this tradition, including close-ups of sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge, and the eternal sandy picnic underway. I started photographing this subject in the 1970s and initially published Last Resort, a book depicting the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Liverpool, in 1986. This led me to photograph beaches across the world, including those of Argentina, Brazil, China, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and of course, the U.K., among others.
One unifying activity is the selling of goods, for the beach is a prime place to sell pretty much anything—from ice cream in Brighton, to the services of an ear cleaner in Goa, India, to barbequed fish in Chile, and noodles in China. You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviours can be found (Martin Parr)”
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Life's a Beach (signed)
by Martin Parr
Photographs: Martin Parr
Text: Martin Parr
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
32 pages
Pictures: 96 coloured photographs
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-2-36511-008-2
Comments: Signed and numbered limited-edition of 1,000; Japanese binding with canvas cover in a box set; 32 x 24 cm
“In the United Kingdom, one is never more than seventy-five miles away from the coast. With this much shoreline, it’s not surprising that there is a strong British tradition of photography by the seaside. American photographers may have given birth to Street photography; but in the U.K., we have the beach. Perhaps the natural outcome is Beach photography. Here people can relax, be themselves, and show off all those traces of mildly eccentric British behaviour.
I’ve photographed the beach over many decades, documenting all aspects of this tradition, including close-ups of sunbathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge, and the eternal sandy picnic underway. I started photographing this subject in the 1970s and initially published Last Resort, a book depicting the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Liverpool, in 1986. This led me to photograph beaches across the world, including those of Argentina, Brazil, China, Spain, Italy, Latvia, Japan, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and of course, the U.K., among others.
One unifying activity is the selling of goods, for the beach is a prime place to sell pretty much anything—from ice cream in Brighton, to the services of an ear cleaner in Goa, India, to barbequed fish in Chile, and noodles in China. You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviours can be found (Martin Parr)”
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by Martin Parr
Photographs: Martin Parr
Text: Martin Parr
Publisher: Editions Xavier Barral
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Pictures: 96 coloured photographs
Year: 2012
ISBN: 978-2-36511-008-2
Comments: Signed and numbered limited-edition of 1,000; Japanese binding with canvas cover in a box set; 32 x 24 cm
“In the United Kingdom, one is never more than seventy-five miles away from the coast. With this much shoreline, it’s not surprising that there is a strong British tradition of photography by the seaside. American photographers may have given birth to Street photography; but in the U.K., we have the beach. Perhaps the natural outcome is Beach photography. Here people can relax, be themselves, and show off all those traces of mildly eccentric British behaviour.
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