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2017 ed Hardcover, clean, tight pages, rub marks to covers BK601V All proceeds to benefit the Menlo Park, Ca. Library. Tracking Included. EH 2017 ed Hardcover, clean, tight pages, rub marks to covers BK601V All proceeds to benefit the Menlo Park, Ca. Library. Tracking Included. EH See less

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Oxford Hardcover – December 1, 2017

by Martin Parr (Author), Simon Winchester OBE (Author)

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Martin Parr, one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photographic agency has undertaken a photo-documentary book project. Oxford is a collection of around 100 photographs documenting an academic year in the life of the university. They capture the day-to-day life of the colleges and University at work and play, and the colourful and arcane rituals that make it so distinctive.

His photographs are accompanied by an extended essay that draws on, and enriches, the photographic material and penned by Simon Winchester, OBE, the British writer, journalist and broadcaster.

The very first photo-documentary of Oxford was created by William Henry Fox Talbot. A century and a half later, Martin Parr's new project pays tribute to the great the pioneer of photography, and coincides with the Bodleian Library's bid to secure his personal archive.

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"In Oxford the celebrated photographer Martin Parr has gathered a set of 118 plates of Oxford scenes and characters, accompanied by a reminiscence of student life in the 1960s by Simon Winchester, and beautifully published by Oxford University Press... eye-catching and stimulating." -- Revd. Dr. Martin Wellings, Methodist Recorder Vol.17

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Martin Parr,Simon Winchester OBE

Martin Parr is one of Britain's best-known contemporary photographers, with a broad international following, and President of Magnum, the world-famous photo agency. He has published widely and exhibited internationally, including a retrospective of his work in 2002, run by the Barbican Art Gallery and the National Media Museum, and a major exhibition currently curated by him at the Science Museum: 'Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr'. His publications include influential photo-books such as The Last Resort: Photographs of New Brighton (1996), Small World (1995), and Think of England (2005).

Simon Winchester, OBE, is a British writer, journalist, and broadcaster. As a journalist he covered major events, including Bloody Sunday and the Watergate Scandal. He is the author of Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories (2010), The Professor and the Madman (1999), The Map that Changed the World (2001), and A Crack in the Edge of the World (2005), all of which have been New York Times bestsellers.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (December 1, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198724411
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198724414
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.87 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 0.9 x 9.4 inches

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Frédéric S.

Martin Parr at its best

Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2018

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Great Martin Parr as always. His style fits perfectly to document such a British institution. Amazing pictures, interesting texts, great print and paper quality and the book itself is splendid, I was not expecting such a large and heavy book. Recommended!

Robert Greenan

I am a great admirer of Parr’s work and own and enjoy owning ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2017

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This book is spectacularly disappointing. I am a great admirer of Parr’s work and own and enjoy owning almost all his books. That’s why I bought this one, even paying the higher Amazon.co.uk price (than the price on Amazon.es, where I live) just to get it as early as possible. I look at his other works all the time and wish I could even begin to imitate his, unfortunately, inimitable style.
This book contains none of the usual Parr themes or techniques. And that’s fine in the sense that an artist like Parr can evolve and explore any way he jolly well likes. But one would expect the subtlety, the irony and the respectfully distant jeering to still be present, even in his new chosen style. And if not, well the colour at least. Or the empathy. Or the absence of empathy!
But there is just nothing. The man who couldn’t be copied has produced an expensive volume of uninteresting snaps, which follow none of his stated philosophies. He doesn’t find things extraordinary in the ordinary, just ordinary things in the ordinary, albeit, with a picturesque backdrop.
I know that Parr has never hidden his willingness to do commercial work for money. Why wouldn’t he? We all have to eat. But this looks like a badly put together tradesman’s illustrated catalogue, or a secondary school pupil’s project.
Don’t buy this book until you see a copy in a library first. I’d send mine back to Amazon but the postage cost would be prohibitive.
Amazingly disappointed.

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Brutally disappointing

Reviewed in Canada on September 27, 2017

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Strictly my personal taste - I don't know what I expected but I find these pictures are neither visually arresting, nor beautifully photographed and reproduced, or even quaint and touristy. If someone had wandered around with their cell phone taking random photos they could have ended up with the photos in this book. Maybe that was the point, you never know with artists - but it's not what I thought I was paying for.

Mr. Andrew M. Chesterman

Very bad book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 19, 2019

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First up I would of expected better from Parr but were talking tourist snap quality for many of these images (im from Oxford and really the subjects chosen are highly generic). Lacking in the "eye" and humor that one would expect from Parr. Very few images are nice. Now...whoever designed the layout for the book and binding should not be allowed near book designing ever again. When choosing double page images one would think that faces would be something to avoid. I will let these images speak for themselves. Back it goes. First time ive ever returned a photo book!