During 30 years, the British artist Martin Parr has photographed the dynamics and the excess of the world, he put together his photos in a collection called Souvenir and 11 of his series are exhibited at the Museum of Art Miguel Urrutia (MAMU) in Bogota, Colombia until june 10th.
169 images are organized in the following series:
- The Last Resort**.** New Brighton is a seaside resort on the Wirral Peninsula, three miles from Liverpool. Originally it was a watering place for the wealthy merchants of Liverpool. Today’s visitors to New Brighton are day-trippers from Liverpool and the Wirral. A hot summer day can still draw large crowds. Martin’s photographs document contemporary New Brighton and urban seaside resort, run down, but very much alive.
- Small World. This serie is the culminationof 8 years’ work exploring the phenomenon of world tourism.
B****ored Couples.
This serie of photographs were taken as an oportunity to explore the veracity of the caption. We don’t know if these random couples are bored or not.
C****ommon Sense.
In 1999, Parr published Common Sense, a close-up study of global consumption and waste. Combining all the elements which had informed his photography in the 70s and 80s, it was an obssesive pursuit of the vulgar, the broken and the absurd.
S****cotland. Parr has been traveling to Scotlandevery year for 20 years and has documented anything from Island life to the suburbs of Glasglow
6. Think of England. Arguably Britain’s most important contemporary photographer, Parr is a prolific and popular mischief-maker in the world of photography, jornalism, art and fashion. Think of England is a comic photo-essay about the identity of England.
Luxury.
This serie of photographs by Martin Parr shows the different ways in which people display their wealth. Designer clothes, champagne and parties are all the part of this repertoire.
M****exico.
It is his photographic exploration of the visual language of Mexico today.
Knokke-Le-Zoute.
In this project Parr dosumented the life style and people of the seaside Belgian town of Knokke-le-Zoute.
Dance.
Over many years Martin Parr has always been attracted to photographing people dancing as an universal pleasure.
Auto-portraits.
For 30 years Martin Parr has collected images of himself taken at both portrait studios and any other methods of gathering portraits. Parr has got a lot older and the whole business has gone from Analogue to Digital.
Martin Parr has used of flash, perspective, the closed plane and blur, among other techniques, central elements of his photography to compose the extravagant. Images garish, grotesque and uncomfortable as the ordinary routines of modern life.
