PhotoIreland Festival announces Martin Parr’s selection of the 30 most influential photobooks of the last decade. The selection, on show at the National Photographic Archive of Ireland until the 31st of July, is featured in the exhibition catalogue, limited to an edition of 500.
The catalogue includes Martin Parr’s comments on each book, together with illustrations and ‘Author’s notes’. These are mostly unpublished texts by the photographers, publishers and curators of the works – personal statements on the process and raison d’être of each book.
The catalogue is available for purchase at the PhotoIreland Web site.
Images of the catalogue:
The list
Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade
Ryan McGinley
The Kids are Alright
Geert van Kesteren
Why Mister Why
Christien Meindertsma
Checked Baggage
Sakaguchi Tomoyuki
Home
Paul Graham
A Shimmer of Possibilities
Dash Snow
Slime the Boogie
Viviane Sassen
Flamboya
JH Engstrom
Trying to Dance
Daniela Rossell
Ricas y Famosas
Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
The Great Unreal
Archive of Modern Conflict
Nein, Onkel
Florian van Roekel
How Terry likes his coffee
WassinkLundgren
Empty Bottles
Alessandra Sanguinetti
On the Sixth Day
Alec Soth
Sleeping by the Mississippi
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Rinko Kawauchi
Utatane
John Gossage
Berlin in the time of the Wall
Leigh Ladare
Pretend You’re Actually Alive
Simon Roberts
We English
Doug Rickard
New American Picture
Miguel Calderon
Miguel Calderon
Miyako Ishuichi
Mother’s
Jules Spinatsch
Temporary Discomfort: Chapter 1-V
Uchihara Yasuhiko
Son of a Bit
Donovan Wylie
Scrapbook
Stephen Gill
Hackney Wick
Susan Meiselas
In History
Michael Wolf
Tokyo Compression
Nina Korhonen
Anna, Amerikan Mummu
Hans Eijkelboom
Portraits & Cameras 1949-2009
EDITORIAL NOTES
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Photobooks: Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade
Curated by Martin Parr
16 July—31 July 2011
National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
In the framework of PhotoIreland Festival 2011
International Festival of Photography and Image Culture
Catalogue edited by Moritz Neumüller & Ángel Luis González
Assistant Researcher Claudia Nir
Design by Conor & David
Book Photography by David Monaghan
Published by PhotoIreland, 2011
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Printed and bound in an edition of 500 by Impress Printing Works in Dublin, Ireland
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3 replies on “Martin Parr’s Best Books of the Decade: The List”
[…] Wolf identified the abiding theme of his work as life in cities and his other signature work, Tokyo Compression, captured the claustrophobic experience of the Japanese capital’s subway system during rush hour. Here the hyperdensity of the postmodern city gives way to a series of portraits of individual endurance, with each face pressed tight against the glass of an ominously overcrowded carriage, offering a Ballardian glimpse of a daily ritual that, in Wolf’s portraits, is by turns intimate and unsettling. Some faces are blurred by the condensation on the windows, others stare implacably at his camera or seem lost in reverie. Some simply close their eyes as if to block out his presence. In 2011, Martin Parr included Tokyo Compression in his 30 most influential books of the previous decade. […]
[…] Wolf identified the abiding theme of his work as life in cities and his other signature work, Tokyo Compression, captured the claustrophobic experience of the Japanese capital’s subway system during rush hour. Here the hyperdensity of the postmodern city gives way to a series of portraits of individual endurance, with each face pressed tight against the glass of an ominously overcrowded carriage, offering a Ballardian glimpse of a daily ritual that, in Wolf’s portraits, is by turns intimate and unsettling. Some faces are blurred by the condensation on the windows, others stare implacably at his camera or seem lost in reverie. Some simply close their eyes as if to block out his presence. In 2011, Martin Parr included Tokyo Compression in his 30 most influential books of the previous decade. […]
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