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All Quotes by author - Martin Parr

" Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of. "

" Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda. "

" For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money. "

" I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement. "

" If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful. "

" If you go to the supermarket and buy a package of food and look at the photo on the front, the food never looks like that inside, does it? That is a fundamental lie we are sold every day. "

" I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. "

" I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. "

" I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them. "

" Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it. "

" My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society. "

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" My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. "

" Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday. "

" Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it. "

" Photographers never want to talk about the fact that they may well be in decline. It's the greatest taboo subject of all. "

" Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that I do so. My conscience is clear. "

" Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work. "

" Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change. "

" Taking photos is a form of collecting. "

" The idea of England in decline is very attractive. "

" There are elements of irony in my work, of course. "

" The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it. "

" Tourism is the biggest industry in the world. "

" We live in a homogenized world, where it's hard to get excited when everything is slick and professional. The interesting things are the dull things. "

" When I am in London, all I do is mix with other people in the arts. "

" When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality. "

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