Martin Parr
2024
Exhibition poster for "Martin Parr - Short & Sweet" (Civico Archeologico in Bologna, 12 September 2024 - 6 January 2025)

Exhibition poster
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Martin Parr (born in 1952) – undoubtedly one of the most established and recognized British documentary photographers of our time – chooses the Museo Civico Archeologico in Bologna to present the exhibition project Short & Sweet, which he directly curated, together with Magnum Photos, after the wide public success recently achieved at Mudec – Museo delle Culture in Milan.
 
From September 12, 2024 to January 6, 2025, the exhibition Martin Parr. Short & Sweet – produced by 24 ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE in collaboration with the Civic Archeological Museum of Bologna’s Museum Sector and Magnum Photos, and under the patronage of the Municipality of Bologna – presents more than 60 photographs he selected specifically for this project and placed side by side with the body of images from the series Common Sense, which made him famous, to retrace, also through an unpublished interview by photography historian and critic Roberta Valtorta, the career of one of the most famous photographers of our time.
 
Beginning with Parr’s early black-and-white works to Parr’s most cherished themes-from ‘beach lives’ to tourism-the exhibition project, curated in person by the artist, showcases more than 60 photographs selected by Parr specifically for this project and presented along with the body of images from the series that made him famous, Common Sense, with more than 200 photographs from the 350 exhibited in the 1999 exhibition of the same name that explore the plasticized and tacky reality of the Western world.
 
Through a journey within the best-known projects, the unprecedented documentary style that has characterized the language of British photographer Martin Parr for more than fifty years becomes a litmus test for observing contemporary society and its most contradictory folds, those that belong to the Western world, particularly Europe, rendered by an edgy, unfiltered and unrhetorical photographic chronicle, sometimes told with biting sarcasm; more often presented with irony and humor. Parr’s images capture comic or unexpected moments, offering a critical yet humorous look at the everyday lives of us all.
 
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