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{"authorDescription":"Martin Parr","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":11060,"guid":"8f2d4a46-3f16-44eb-9257-fc78c318c29c","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"49.95","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"24.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714839912","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"133","extent":"144","language":"English","lenInch":"10 5/8","lenMm":"270","weightKilo":"0.82","widthInch":"7 1/2","widthMm":"190"},"status":false,"subtitle":"","title":"Think of England","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"Martin Parr (b.1952) is arguably Britain's most important contemporary photographer, with a unique perspective and unmistakable style, and with a critical and popular following in the worlds of art, fashion and journalism. He has been widely published and exhibited internationally. Books of his photographs include \u003ci\u003eBad Weather, The Cost of Living\u003c/i\u003e (1991), \u003ci\u003eSmall World\u003c/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Resort - Photographs of New Brighton\u003c/i\u003e (1997). His first book for Phaidon, \u003ci\u003eBoring Postcards\u003c/i\u003e (1999), was a massive success, both in England and around the world, and his \u003ci\u003eBoring Postcards USA\u003c/i\u003e (Phaidon, 2000) brings together the dullest postcards from the land of opportunity.","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003eEngland has been a key subject of Magnum photographer Martin Parr's work since he started taking pictures. \u003ci\u003eThink of England\u003c/i\u003e is a comic, opinionated, affectionately satirical, colour-saturated photo-essay about the identity of England. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Scotland and Wales consolidate their status as nations and Great Britain begins to unravel, this book of new work contributes to the debate about what it means to be English. Quintessentially English himself, Parr's great achievement as a photographer is his ability to transform the obvious into the surprising, reinventing clichés of Englishness as provocative revelations. His tour of obvious England takes in Ascot and the charity shop, seaside resorts, herbaceous borders, the bring-and-buy stall, cucumber sandwiches and cups of tea, baked beans and bad footwear. \u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eParr's work has already added to the visual vocabulary of England; this book, his first specifically on the subject of England, stretches it further. Simultaneously affectionate and brutally direct, all the photographs are shot with a ring flash camera (more usually used for medical photographs), which has been his medium of choice for the last four years.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An accessible and funny study into the soul-searching debate about the very nature of Englishness.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003ePride of Britain\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Parr provides the definitive picture of English egg-and-chintz.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eBritish Journal of Photography\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An affectionately satirical study of the English identity... The effect is both reassuring and disturbing.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;100 colour images... that transform the kitsch, the clich\u0026#233;d and the common into the sublime.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eEvening Standard\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;A wryly ambivalent amble through the commonplaces of his home country.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Zeroing in on the abundant clich\u0026#233;s of his green and pleasant land and pushing them as far as they\u0026#8217;ll go.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Uses supersaturated colors and a satirical eye to paint a portrait of his motherland that is both comical and despairing.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eAmerican Photo\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"Comic, opinionated and affectionately satirical photographs of England by the Magnum photographer."}