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{"authorDescription":"Phillip Prodger with an introduction by Grayson Perry","bookshot2d":null,"bookshot3d":null,"bookshot3dSquare":null,"categories":[],"date":"","editionId":74458,"guid":"e8728e63-fdea-42cf-9509-c5bf76b4ab26","images":[],"markets":{"AUD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"79.95","show":false},"CAD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"79.95","show":false},"EUR":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"49.95","show":false},"GBP":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"39.95","show":false},"TEST":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"0.00","show":false},"USD":{"discountPrice":null,"inventory_policy":"continue","price":"59.95","show":false}},"related":[],"sku":"9780714878577","source":"BOOKs","specifications":{"binding":"Hardback","colIlls":"250","extent":"240","language":"English","lenInch":"9 5/8","lenMm":"245","weightKilo":"1.35","widthInch":"8 1/4","widthMm":"210"},"status":false,"subtitle":"Photographs by Martin Parr ","title":"Only Human","uri":"","webAuthorDescription":"\u003cp\u003eMartin Parr's distinctive style has established him as a leading cultural commentator in contemporary photography. Parr has published over 80 photobooks, and his work has been recognized with major awards and over 100 exhibitions worldwide.\u003c/p\u003e \n\u003cp\u003ePhillip Prodger is senior research scholar at the Yale University Center for British Art, and was formerly head of photographs at the NPG, London.\u003c/p\u003e","webDescription":"","webKeywords":"","webLongDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA major new book on Martin Parr explores the photographer's most enduring subject \u0026#8211; people \u0026#8211; as never before\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy turns witty, surprising, and ingenious, Martin Parr's photographs reveal the eccentricities of modern life with affection and insight. This book \u0026#8211; published to coincide both with Parr's 2019 exhibition at London's National Portrait Gallery and also the date the UK will leave the EU \u0026#8211; examines what it means to be human at a time of both change and retrospection. Bringing together new work from the last decade, Only Human explores the concepts of Britishness and national identity through the rituals and habits of everyday life.\u003c/p\u003e","webReviews":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Parr is arguably our most successful documentary photographer.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Times\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Parr's images are full of bonkers humour and jolly grimness.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;[A] renowned photographer.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;[Martin Parr's] brilliant pictures show 21st century Britain in all its glorious eccentricity.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Mail Online\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Martin Parr might just have created the most enduring document of brexit Britain... Martin Parr might be, from his investigations into leisure time, social life, working class communities, the most anthropologically interesting of photographers to have documented British life in the post-industrial era.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003ei-D\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Britain through the eyes of the photographer who knows it best.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eVice\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The esteemed photographer... Martin Parr [is] one of Britain's best-known and most widely celebrated photographers.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eWonderland\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Yet, it's not the blinding flash, saturated colour or comic relief that makes his photographs so unequivocally Parr, but something else more subtle... Parr's photographs have a way of looking beyond what is stood plainly in front of us, rousing questions in the viewer around identity and what it means to be human.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDazed\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;He is as much a portrait photographer as certain of his renowned precursors, such as August Sander, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe British Journal of Photography\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The star of British street photography.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDigital Camera World\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Everyday life in the multifarious communities within Britain, with everyone - famous or unknown - photographed with affectionate acuity and Parr's distinctive eye for the absurd.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An iconic survey of Britishness today... A cultural self-portrait for better or worse, Parr has always reminded me, awkwardly, unavoidably, of everything I love/hate about home.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eLaura Bailey, Vogue Contributing Editor, Vogue.co.uk\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;\u003cem\u003eOnly Human\u003c/em\u003e charts Parr's relationship with Britain and people of other countries throughout the world, and how he has captured their eccentricities throughout his career.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eAnOther magazine online\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;In documenting his homeland, the British photographer captures its contradictions and ambiguities with a sense of humor.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times - Lens Blog\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;An essential reference point for those with even a passing interest in photography, fashion, and graphic design.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eThe Essential Journal\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;All about the eccentricities of humans, these photographs from Martin Parr capture Britain's oddities.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eForbes Online\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;This Martin Parr book would make a perfect gift for the couple who love people-watching.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Martin Parr's style seems to ask ever-more interesting questions of his homeland, and in this collection he takes a thoroughly portrait-orientated survey of the quirks of the British.\u0026quot;\u0026#8212;\u003cem\u003eDigital Camera World\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","webShortDescription":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA major new book on Martin Parr explores the photographer's most enduring subject \u0026#8211; people \u0026#8211; as never before\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"}