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PARR, Martin (Epsom, 1952)Remote Scottish Postboxes
Bristol, RRB PhotoBooks 2017 - Edizione speciale di 100 esemplari con foto (Original special edition of 100 copies with photo)
Box set with 6 loose booklets bound with black thread. Text by Susie Parr. Colour photographs by Martin Parr. One of 100 copies with an original photograph numbered and signed by the artist on the back, enclosed in a stamped postage-paid envelope (cm 25x20, copy 98/100). Also includes a postcard with colour reproduction of an image from the "Outer Hebrides" with dedication and signature by the artist ("Wish you were here", cm 20x12)
Cm 28x24, pp. 88 Brossura, custodia (wrappers, slip-case) Perfetto (Mint)"When you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, in a desolate landscape and wilderness, these little postboxes are strangely comforting, a sign that other people are around, that life is going on and that you are connected to the world" (from Susie Parr's text).
Remote Scottish Postboxes by Martin Parr has been described as the prolific photographer's only contribution to landscape photography. However, what Parr has achieved with these images is rather a series of portraits of the lonely outposts of civilisation. The Postboxes in each location, red and awkward against the lonely Scottish landscapes, each have a personality and character of their own.
€600