Martin Parr Quotes - Page 2

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• Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

  Martin Parr

  Hypocrisy, Criticism, Tourists

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• Photography is Art and Art is Photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Art, Art Is

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

  Martin Parr

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

  Martin Parr

  Thinking, Groups, Photograph

  "Off the Shelf: Martin Parr’s 'Small World'" by Rollo Romig, www.newyorker.com. April 7, 2010.

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• As artists get wealthier and more famous, often their work gets worse... I'm fascinated by the decline of artists. I suspect I'll be in decline myself. It's a fact of life.

  Martin Parr

  Artist, Facts, Decline

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• When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

  Martin Parr

  Preparation, Six Months, Firsts

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Photographs are interpretations of reality; as such, it is entirely subjective. Most photos are taken with an agenda, to sell something or to make a subject look better than it really is. Think of family snapshots - everyone is smiling and happy.

  Martin Parr

  Taken, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Everyone is a photographer now, remember. That's the great thing about photography.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Photographer, Remember

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• I am kept awake by the list of possibilities for shooting more photos and deciding what I must prioritise next.

  Martin Parr

  Shooting, Next, Lists

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• The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

  Martin Parr

  Danger, Formulas, Repeats

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• When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.

  Martin Parr

  Mother, Beach, Children

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• There are two parts to the process: taking the picture and finding ways of using it.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Two, Way

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• Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.

  Martin Parr

  Voice, Essentials, World

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• For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Facts, Boring

  "The myth and the reality" by Martin Parr, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2010.

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• Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Propaganda, Glamorous

  "The foibles of the world". Article by Benjamin Secher, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 27, 2011.

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• I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was a great distortion of contemporary life. Photographers were interested only in certain things. A visually interesting place, people who were either very rich or very poor, and nostalgia.

  Martin Parr

  People, Interesting, Photographer

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• Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

  Martin Parr

  Trying, Looks, Propaganda

  "The power of sepia - an expert's take on that Madonna image" by Martin Parr, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

  Martin Parr

  Email, Needs, Linkedin

  "Martin Parr: My Media". Interview with John Dugdale, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.

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  People, Littles, Documentaries

  "As we live and breathe: your photos of funerals and smoking". Interview with Theresa Malone, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

  Martin Parr

  Photography, Roles, Intimidation

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings and Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• Dictators are interesting, no?

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  Interesting, Dictator

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• Wealthy people have not disappeared, they are just not so willing to show off their wealth.

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  People, Wealth, Shows

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• In 1982 I bought the newly released Makina Plaubel 55mm fixed-lens camera. With this shift from 35mm to 6 x 7, I also changed from black and white to color. Later that year, I started my project on New Brighton called The Last Resort. However, the first project I shot in colour was composed of urban scenes from Liverpool. This image was on the second roll of film. It's the first good photo I made in this new chapter of my work.

  Martin Parr

  Black And White, Color, Years

  "10 Photographers Share ‘An Image That Changed Everything’ And The Stories Behind Them" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2015.

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• From the moment the tourist enters the site, everyone has to be photographed in front of every feature of note.... The photographic record of the visit has almost destroyed the very notion of actually looking.

  Martin Parr

  Tourists, Records, Moments

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• I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the 80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

  Martin Parr

  Crosses, Britain, Policy

  "When two tribes go to war" by Martin Parr, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.

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