Martin Parr. Short & Sweet

The Museo delle Culture continues its successful collaboration with Magnum Photos on reportage and documentary photography with “Martin Parr. Short and Sweet “, a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most successful and recognized British documentary photographers of our time, produced by 24 ORE Cultura, promoted by the City of Milan-Cultura and with Fondazione Deloitte as Institutional Partner.

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 alongside the body of images from the series that made him famous, Common Sense, featuring 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Through a path inside the best-known projects and thanks also to a previously unpublished interview curated by photography historian and critic Roberta Valtorta, the unprecedented documentary style that has characterized the language of British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 European, returned by an edgy photographic chronicle, unfiltered and out of rhetoric, 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.

Curated by Martin Parr, with the collaboration of Magnum Photos