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Publishing Photography
A Practical Guide
Small World
Revised and updated edition of Parr's sought-after classic, first published in 1996. It is a biting, funny satire in which Parr looks at tourism worldwide, exposing the increasingly homogenous global culture' where, in the search for different cultures, those same cultures are destroyed. The issues raised by Parr a decade ago are even more relevant today. A member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency, Parr is one of the best known photographers in the world today. He has published innumerable books and his work has been exhibited worldwide.'
The Englishman & the Eel
The Englishman and the Eel is a journey into that most London of institutions, the Eel, Pie and Mash shop. Today, these simple spaces hold within them the memories of a rich, largely undocumented cultural heritage of generations of working-class Londoners in a city whose only constant is change. Often elaborately decorated with ornate Victorian tiling, many sold live eels in metal trays that faced out onto the street to the fascination (and sometimes horror) of passersby. Inside, warmth and comfort. Steam. Tea. Laughter. Families.
The Ameriguns
Of all the firearms in the world owned by private citizens for non-military purposes, half are in the United States of America. In number they exceed the country's population: 393 million for 372 million people. Photographer Gabriele Galimberti has travelled to every corner of the United States, to meet proud gun-owners, and to see their firearms collections. These, often unsettling, portraits, along with the accompanying stories of the owners and their firearms, provide an uncommon and unexpected insight into what today is really represented by the institution of the Second Amendment.
Big Brother
An estimated 1 in 4 of us will suffer from a mental illness. Those suffering have to face a wall of stigma and stereotyping which often makes their condition worse. Big Brother is an intimate photographic portrait of Louis Quail's older brother, Justin, and his daily struggle with schizophrenia. By showing the person beyond the illness, Big Brother challenges stigma head on. It reveals a system in crisis, but it also discovers important truths on the nature of resilience. At its heart though Big Brother is a love story. The book includes extensive texts to tell Justin's story.
London Street Photography, 1860-2010
A showcase of the Museum of London's unique historic collection of street photographs, London Street Photography contains the work of more than 70 photographers, giving a fascinating view of London street life during the last 150 years. It includes the work of well-known photographers such as Paul Martin, John Thomson, Humphrey Spender and Bert Hardy as well as the work of many anonymous photographers whose contribution has been just as important in recording the story of the city.
The Last Resort
A revised edition of the classic book that launched Martin Parr and transformed the world of documentary photography.
Children of Bombay
Winner of the 1994 European Publishers Award for Photography, this outstanding book focuses on the street children of India's largest city where an estimated 30,000 children are homeless. Living on the streets, under bridges, in railway stations, or anywhere they can find without being harassed by the police or criminals, these children have no rights and are generally considered a nuisance. An extraordinarily forceful work by one of Italy's most respected photographers.
Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia
Born in London in 1912, the youngest child of a Cuban father and an Anglo-Indian mother, Julian Maclaren-Ross led a bizarre and chaotic life, living at one time or another as a vacuuum-cleaner salesman, an author, screenwriter, army deserter, alcoholic, drug-addict, stalker and Soho stalwart. Since his death, his place in literary history has been secured by the acclaimed posthumous publication of Memoirs of the Forties, and he has been memorialised as X. Trapnel in Anthony Powell's celebrated A Dance to the Music of Time. This is his first full and authorised biography.
Once Upon a Time in Wales
For thirty-five years this extraordinary collection of photographs remained hidden from the world. Taken around 1971-1972, by young photographer Robert Haines, they record life in the Welsh valleys, in the village of Heolgerrig and nearby Merthyr Tydfil. Heolgerrig was a very close-knit community with Welsh the first language. It was a mining community where most of the men worked underground and life seemed to revolve around the pub and the chapel. Merthyr Tydfil, once the "Iron Capital" of the world, had a justifiable reputation as "tough" with characters such as hard man Melvin Webber, who died after being blasted by a shotgun, and "Mad" Malcolm, for whom no chemical substance was too strong. The early seventies were a time of flux and, looking at these powerful photographs now, many of the extraordinary characters featured seem to have drifted in from a previous century. Haines photographed the local people with enthusiasm and energy. Some he knew well, others were complete strangers. Some spent their days in the pub, others worked underground, and living conditions were often very poor. The photographs speak to us today of a world very different from our own.
