"It is spring 2008 and my friend, photographer and book collector John Gossage is coming to the UK. We have planned to embark upon a minor road trip together. All John requests is that I drive
and that we visit some ’typical Parr seaside locations’. No problem." Martin Parr "The protagonist of this work, "the photographer", Mr. Parr is pictured throughout the book." John Gossage
Martin Parr and John Gossage’s British coastal trip covered spots like Georgian Clifton (Bristol), Severn Bridge (Wales), and Caerau, the mining village near Cardiff where photographer Robert
Frank had made his famous report and met the miner Ben James in 1953. The road took them further north to reach Porthmadog and Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales, ending in Liverpool, Morecambe
and smaller towns in the Lake District. The outcome are shots of street scenes, backyards, gardens, sceneries and very few people on the way, silent testimonies of small, unexpected details of
everyday life in a world that is not visited by many, let alone photographed. As Parr concludes in his introductory text: "I am amazed that the collective vision of this volume is so familiar,
but entirely alien. It restores my faith in photography to know that a mature and original photographer like John Gossage can see the things I just did not notice."
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North and West Chelmsford
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Luftwaffe’s Attacks on Britain 1941-1945
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Father Browne’s Titanic Album
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The British on the Somme 1916: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
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Remarkable Women of Sanibel and Captiva
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Panzer IV on the Battlefield
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Johor: 300 Early Postcards
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Fighting for Freedom: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Coweta County: A Brief History
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Ligonier
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Well Done: SFA 90+ Years and Cooking
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Reno’s Heyday, 1931-1991
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Activestills: Photography As Protest in Palestine/Israel
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Boston in the American Revolution: A Town Versus an Empire
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1945: The Second World War at Sea in Photographs
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War in the Air 1914-1916: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
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Abstrakt Zermatt
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Trench Warfare: Contemporary Combat Images from the Great War
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Epsom and Ewell Then & Now
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Batman Vol. 3 I Am Bane (Rebirth)
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