Life's a beach photographs by Martin Parr

• Main Author: Parr, Martin 1952- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Aperture 2013; ©2013
• Edition: First trade edition.
• Subjects: Parr, Martin > 1952- > Exhibitions; Beaches > Pictorial works; Seashore > Pictorial works; Seaside resorts > Pictorial works
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• Item Description: "Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name: Aperture Gallery, New York, May 15-July 3, 2013; the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, Fall 2013."
• Physical Description: 123 pages color illustrations 22 cm
• ISBN: 9781597112130

In the United Kingdom, one is never more than 75 miles away from the coast. With this much shoreline, it's not surprising that there should be a thriving British tradition of seaside photography. American photographers may have invented street photography, but according to photographer Martin Parr, "in the U.K., we have the beach!" Here, he asserts, people can relax, be themselves and indulge in mildly eccentric British behavior. Parr has been photographing this subject for many decades, in close-ups of sun bathers, rambunctious swimmers caught mid-plunge and the eternal sandy picnic. His career, in fact, could be traced back to the 1986 publication of 'The Last Resort', which depicted the seaside resort of New Brighton, near Liverpool.