Martin Parr talked about his collections. He is a massive collector of photographic ephemera, books on photography, what must be an amazing collection of photographic prints, and stacks of objects, mostly hosting photograpic images, ie. tea-trays, watches, etc. Also a huge collection of Thatcher memorabilia, offset by another contemporary archive of the Miner's strike. He lives in Bristol and has a warehouse in Bedminster for his collection, it's got so big. Last year he showed some of his collection at the Baltic.
The more you study his work the more the collection makes sense, have a look at his website
He talked about mostly working abroad, and how Photography is taken seriously in Europe, but not here; it is only recently that Tate Modern had added photographs to its permanent collection. He also talked about the demise of photographic editorial in the weekend magazines,and how 20 years ago the bulk of his income came from this editorial work, now it comes from selling prints of his photographs. He has galleries representing him all over the world, and his work (now solely digital) is archived and outputted from his studio in London. He is a member of Magnum, the prestigious photographic agency that is run co-operatively by its members. It was founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour.
"Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about
what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to
transcribe it visually." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There is an exhibition of collections at The Officers Club in Stall Street, opposite the entrance to the Roman Baths. Arranged by The Collective, it's part of the Fringe Festival, and features, among other things, a wall of Panini football stickers. See what you think....
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I was asked by Penny to comment on the Peter Blake exhibition as I volunteer there. I recommend to go to the exhibition if you are a student as it is only £3. If you are not I think its expensive £5.50-£6.00 for an exhibition which is smaller than the graphics hub. The exhibition itself is good not great the feeling I get from the people who go round it is I could of done this, I could of collected a bunch of elephants and put it in a cabinet. But then again that is what most people say about contemporary art that they could of done it, but they haven't and they haven't thought of it and there name isn't Sir Peter Blake, and have a collection like this: autographs from Duchamp and Hockney general Tom Thumb’s boots, Max Miller’s shoes and Ian Dury’s Rhythm Stick. So if you are bored one day go. The thing I do recommend is the exhibition book it's really interesting it makes you understand the collection, and you get to know Sir Peter Blake better and why he collects certain things and its a great read as he is really candid about things. Yes it's £18.99 but it's defiantly worth it, I think its actually better than seeing the exhibition because there is so much you see of his collections that you don't see in the exhibition.
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