Martin Parr will be at Carpenter Center, Harvard University Saturday, October 25.
At 3pm Martin Parr will be in conversation with Paul Larosa talking about the making of Volume 3 of the History of Photobook.
This is event is hosted by Phaidon Press and admission is free on a first come first served basis.
That evening the Harvard Film Archive will be showing two of his films at 7pm. This is a special event with a $12 admission fee.
"TWO FILMS BY MARTIN PARR
Famed and remarkably prolific British photographer Martin Parr (b. 1952) is celebrated as one of the great chroniclers of the contradictions and absurdities of life and leisure in the age of late capitalism. Balancing a wry anthropological detachment with a brilliant artistic spontaneity and penchant for extreme color and close-up, Parr’s imagery of the everyday life confounds the categories of art photography and journalism. While constant attention has been paid to Parr’s major photo projects, especially his studies of rural England THE LAST RESORT and THE COST OF LIVING, scant attention has been given to Parr’s work as an occasional documentary filmmaker whose films reveal his trained eye to be equally astute and insightful with the moving image as his iconic still photography. Offering a rare chance view Parr’s documentary work, this program brings together two of Parr’s films- THINK OF ENGLAND his millennial made-for-BBC reflection on national identity and Britishness, and his latest work, TURKEY AND TINSEL, a dead-pan and often hilarious observational documentary about Christmas in small town England.
We are thrilled to welcome Martin Parr to the Carpenter Center and to the Harvard Film Archive.
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