Martin Parr

American Dream Park, Shanghai, China, 1997

1997/2023

Ektacolor print mounted to 4-ply board Signed and inscribed "PL.159.4," verso This photograph is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City. Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an internationally exhibited and renowned American Photographer, based in New York City. diCorcia studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Botson, and received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, where he now teaches. diCorcia is a pioneer of staged depictions of everyday life, inspired in part by the artificiality of traditional American cinema. "I thought of the people as puppets who were unstrung, mercilessly disempowered – not preyed upon, but living on the edge and not by choice," diCorcia said of his earliest L.A. subjects. "So it was interesting to set up scenarios that often didn't portray the real circumstances." diCorcia first achieved notoriety for his series, "Hustlers" (1990-1992), for which he staged portraits of...

Huntsville, Texas, 1968 / Printed 2011 The Walls is a walled penitentiary. It is the oldest unit of the system and is located near the center of the town of Huntsville. Gelatin sil...

For sale an original signed museum-quality Magnum 6x6 photographic print by MARTIN PARR (British, born 1952). Titled "Pyongyang, North Korea. 1997", this Magnum print was a time-limited edition that was only available to purchase for a period of five days. The work is signed to the back on an affixed archival label, which carries the image’s accompanying text and is printed on Fuji Crystal Archive Matte paper. The piece is mounted in a white lacquered frame. The accompanying text by the artist reads: “North Korea is maybe the most surreal country on Earth. Being there is like walking around on a film set. People don’t want to engage with a foreigner, such as myself, but I loved coming across this baby, who was very happy to stare right back at me!” Martin Parr thinks of his photography as an ongoing investigation of human interaction, leisure, and context. Parr is interested in how people live and present themselves to others, particularly in how they display their values. His subjects have included the spectators of a championship polo game...

Putting aside his usual black and white palette, Hiroshi Watanabe uses color in his attempt to tell an unbiased story of North Korean culture and everyday life in "Ideology in Paradi...