Description:
Signed copy.
Common Sense was first shown in 1999 as an exhibition staged simultaneously in forty-one venues in seventeen countries. This organisational feat earned Parr a Guinness World Record. To coincide with the exhibitions Parr produced the book, also called Common Sense. The pictures were taken in the UK and abroad and depict images of global consumerism in tight close-up and lurid colour.
The photographs were taken with 35mm ultra saturated film which produces vivid, heightened colours. The pictures depict the minutiae of consumer culture, fragments that testify to the ways in which ordinary people entertain themselves. There are details of garish clothing and accessories, women’s faces heavy with make-up, and piles of merchandise in tourist shops, cake shops, sex shops and car boot sales. Fast food is a recurring theme: a child’s hands clutching an oversized donut, rows of lollipops, plates overflowing with fried breakfasts and bowls piled high with ice cream. An overweight woman grips a hundred-dollar bill between her teeth. The images capture the feel of disposable culture in the developed world.
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Condition: The book is in very good condition and signed at the time of the exhibition opening in 1999.
Book Size: 30 x 21cm
Pages: 160
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 1-899235-078
Description:
Signed copy.
Common Sense was first shown in 1999 as an exhibition staged simultaneously in forty-one venues in seventeen countries. This organisational feat earned Parr a Guinness World Record. To coincide with the exhibitions Parr produced the book, also called Common Sense. The pictures were taken in the UK and abroad and depict images of global consumerism in tight close-up and lurid colour.
The photographs were taken with 35mm ultra saturated film which produces vivid, heightened colours. The pictures depict the minutiae of consumer culture, fragments that testify to the ways in which ordinary people entertain themselves. There are details of garish clothing and accessories, women’s faces heavy with make-up, and piles of merchandise in tourist shops, cake shops, sex shops and car boot sales. Fast food is a recurring theme: a child’s hands clutching an oversized donut, rows of lollipops, plates overflowing with fried breakfasts and bowls piled high with ice cream. An overweight woman grips a hundred-dollar bill between her teeth. The images capture the feel of disposable culture in the developed world.
Publication Date: 1999
Publisher: Dewi Lewis
Condition: The book is in very good condition and signed at the time of the exhibition opening in 1999.
Book Size: 30 x 21cm
Pages: 160
Format: Hard Cover
ISBN: 1-899235-078