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Magnum Foundation invites you to a conversation with Magnum photographer Martin Parr and Aperture editor-at-large Lesley A. Martin about book-making. They will discuss Parr’s longstanding interest in the photobook, from his personal collection of photobooks, to the book form as a vehicle for his own work. Parr will present a few of his classic monographs, including The Cost of Living, Common Sense, Life’s a Beach, and Death by Selfie, before a conversation with Aperture’s editor-at-large Lesley A. Martin about his role as a champion of the photobook as an autonomous art form. A book and poster signing with Parr will follow the conversation.
Friday, October 27, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM ET
In-person and online
59 East 4th St, 7W | New York, NY 10003
Books and Magnum Photos Collection Posters available for purchase in-person at the event
About the speakers:
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established. Parr also acts as a curator and editor. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. More recently Parr curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar. Parr has been a member of the Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 - 2017. In 2013 Parr was appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster. Parr’s work has been collected by many of the leading museums, from the Tate, the Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Martin Parr established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. In 2019 the National Portrait Gallery in London held a major exhibition of Parr’s work titled Only Human.
Lesley A. Martin who began her career at Aperture as a work scholar, is editor at large. She is the editor of more than one hundred photobooks and counting, including On the Beach by Richard Misrach (2007); Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi (2011, reissue 2021); LaToya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family (2014); Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (2017); The New Black Vanguard by Antwaun Sargent (2019); and Sara Cwynar: Glass Life (2021). During its ten-year run, she was founder and publisher of The PhotoBook Review. She was commissioning editor of The Chinese Photobook (2015); a contributing editor to Japanese Photobooks of the 1960s and ’70s (2009) and The Latin American Photobook (2011); and curator of The Ubiquitous Image (2008), The New York Times Magazine Photographs (with Kathy Ryan, 2011), and Mickalene Thomas: Muse (2016). Lesley’s writing has been published in IMA magazine, FOAM, and Aperture. In 2012, she cofounded the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards and, in 2020, she received the Royal Photographic Society Award for outstanding achievement in photographic publishing. Lesley is currently a visiting critic at Yale School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut.
Magnum Foundation is in an elevator building and has a restroom that is wheelchair accessible and gender-neutral. For access requests or questions, please contact events@magnumfoundation.org. As a small team, we will better be able to respond to requests made at least one week in advance.
Masks are currently appreciated, but not required. We may provide additional instructions ahead of the event.
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