Description:

This book has been out of print for 30 years and is now one of Parr's most sought after books. Books on Books No.17 reproduces the entire publication spread by spread, and includes an essay by Thomas Weski on Britain's obsession with its weather, called "Even the Queen Gets Wet."

Published in 1982, Bad Weather was Parr’s debut monograph. Armed with an underwater camera and flash he presents a bizarre and often humorous world turned topsy-turvy by wind or rain. Waldemar Januszczak has written “He  searches not for the drama of bad weather but for its loneliness, the way it seems to drive all living things under cover,  and leaves a nature populated only by ghostly inanimate objects”. The photographs alternate between realism and surrealism and Marked a transition in Parr’s work from the more nostalgic early themes such as Beauty Spots (1976) and the Non-Conformists (1981), to a greater involvement with modern subjects and contemporary issues.

Publication Date:  1982

Publisher: Arts Council of Great Britain

Condition: Very Good

Book Size: 29.5 x 21cm

Pages: 64

Format: Soft Cover

ISBN: 0-302-99996-5