Martin Parr (1952 – 2025)
Martin Parr has spent five decades turning his camera on the rituals, vanities, and absurdities of modern life, producing a body of work that is at once hilarious and deeply uncomfortable. Born in Epsom, Surrey, in 1952, he was introduced to photography by his grandfather, George Parr, an enthusiastic amateur whose influence steered the young […]
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Nan Goldin picked up a camera at the age of fifteen and never put it down. Born Nancy Goldin in Washington, D.C., in 1953, she was raised in a comfortable suburban household whose outward respectability concealed a private tragedy that would shape everything she made. Her older sister Barbara committed suicide at the age of […]
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