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“... is alive, he is unlikely to recall his exasperated verdict on the shortcomings of the 14-year-old Martin Parr: ‘utterly lazy and inattentive’. For Parr, the consequences were more far-reaching, and in the short term disastrous: his mother tore up the report in front of him. ‘Perhaps she was so disappointed by my ...”

“... it.A natural history of such uneasy tussles, some vocal, some unspoken, could be illustrated from Martin Parr’s work. His pictures can be seen both at the Barbican until 14 April and in the well-made book which accompanies the exhibition.* They can be read as a recapitulation of the history of the unsolicited photograph: a history which begins with the ...”

“... whose work he knows (he has published selections from Elaine Constantine, Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Homer Sykes and others), but most of the books begin with unsolicited submissions from amateur or professional photographers, or heirs to neglected shoeboxes.The snapshots in Peter’s book were taken during his first three years in ...”

“... Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, curated by the English photographer Martin Parr, is made up of around 250 works by 23 photographers who came to Britain for long and short periods between the 1930s and 2014. The division between the two floors of the gallery offers a useful temporal break: the first fifty years upstairs; the ...”

“... hit the same sweetly rasping note as Tish Murtha’s unemployed man and his family in Newcastle, Martin Parr’s empty, rained-on tables for a Jubilee street party, Tony Ray-Jones’s group on deckchairs making the best of a cold day on Brighton Beach, Homer Sykes’s naked girls in a fairground peepshow. They all say ‘this is how we are,’ in black ...”

“... funfair – make it tempting to draw comparisons with the English kitsch of photographers such as Martin Parr. However, the Rio group’s photographs engage with their subjects, who aren’t documented but rather are in dialogue with the camera, active participants in the cultural and political life around them. As Alan Denney (who helped to catalogue ...”

“... not just in Eggleston’s photographs but in those of many who are working adjacent seams (Martin Parr comes to mind), may be that only by mixing the sweet and the sour can photography keep its credentials as a primary source of information about how the world really is. The shades of grey that I sense below the accidents of colour are those black ...”

“... which are the real subjects. Deadpan looks at present-day English suburbs in photographs by Martin Parr and a painting of a patio by David Rayson are also urban landscapes rather than garden pictures. In Rayson’s picture white plastic chairs on a neatly mown lawn lean around a table as if avoiding the gaze of the identical new brick houses which ...”

“... interior does that), as is the paparazzi in-your-face flash snapshooting used by Paul Reas and Martin Parr. Photography now builds on its own history. In the exhibition you see the influence on later pictures of William Eggleston’s prints of penetratingly ordinary American things and places, which released art photography from puritanical black and ...”

“... to the final four at the Euros that summer too. A few months before, the FA’s chief executive, Martin Glenn, made a public apology for the harm the FA had done women by keeping them out of the game. From 1921 to 1971, it had banned women from playing on its grounds, deliberately stifling a sport that had thrived in the first decades of the 20th century.One ...”