Re: Martin Parr

["Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>]

Thanks, Judy, for the heads up on Martin Parr.  I think he is fast becoming 
my fave, too.  What a sense of vernacular humor!

I am spending several hours at a time combing through the library TR 
section, paging through each book, and marking it yea or nay on my list that 
is now down to 2300 from 3700.  I have come across some wonderful books that 
apply to alt, so I am revising my list to NOT be the top 100 (or 500) books, 
but dividing it into categories of alt, doc, experimental, digital, etc. so 
I think the alt list of books will be quite helpful, esp since a lot of the 
books are not alt per se but have lots of examples in them (esp the history 
ones).

The benefit is I have come across some real winners.

Question--anyone into photography in the 60's or 70's who might know if 
Benno Friedman did gum on a regular basis?
Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bryant" <dsbryant@bellsouth.net>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:24 PM
Subject: Martin Parr


> For those interested here is a link to an interview of Martin Parr.
>
> http://www.lensculture.com/parr.html
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Seigel [mailto:jseigel@panix.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:29 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: Books
>
> Thanks to Scott for mentioning some I'd forgotten, namely:
>
> On Thu, 3 May 2007, Weber, Scott wrote:
>
> > Susan Sontag, On Photography (love her or hate her she always stirs
> > things up in my classes)
> > Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, The Architect's Brother
> both of them among my favorites, too, tho interestingly (I suppose) some 
> of
> the others Scott mentioned are among my least-favorites (or my "yuck"
> pile).
>
> But my alltime favorite for this moment is Martin Parr's "Common Sense,"
> which was given to me about a year ago (I'd never heard of it) but I
> understand is now -- ta da -- a collector's item !  I can look at it every
> day, or  wish I managed to... It says more about photography, people, the
> world, than I thought humanly possible.
>
> And Martin Parr is my favorite photographer for all time at this moment.
>
> His website
>
> www.martinparr.com
>
> is also a favorite, if not THE favorite. When time permits I'll write 
> about
> the sheer genius of his series, "The Last Parking Space" and relate it to
> Christina's picture of "Wrong Way."  Among other insights.
>
> Another point is that this "poll" conflates picture books, how-to books, 
> and
> theory books, which very different, and even have subsets within each.
>
> Finally, I can't resist mentioning that listing "Ansel Adams" among
> favorites is... who did that?  Don't want to make a young person cry.
> But REALLY .... um (muffled explanation, and fighting back words sounding
> like "sucky"... But now back to my needle & thread, have to go to wedding
> tomorrow in Wash DC, need to sew a dress.... putting on my grandmother's 
> old
> lace.  Anybody got the arsenic?)
>
> Judy