Signed; Martin Parr - No Smoking - 2024

This is a very rare signed hardback book from the wonderful photographer Martin Parr titled No Smoking and published by the Rocket Gallery in 2024. This copy is signed in black ink by Martin Parr to the inside front cover and in fine condition.

Martin Parr's No Smoking is dedicated to the increasingly controversial subject of smoking. Spanning the length of Parr’s career – with photographs from 1970 to 2019 – this book highlights the evolution of smoking culture over the last five decades.

Throughout his career Martin Parr has captured daily life as it really is and as you sift through the archives it is rather difficult to not stumble upon a cigarette, cigar, pipe or – in recent years – a dreaded vape. So, with murmurs of the United Kingdom banning the purchase of tobacco by anyone born after 2009, no time seems more ideal to offer up a typically Parr commentary on society’s ever-changing relationship with smoking.

This survey of smoking culture is edited & designed by Sid Stephenson.

Martin Parr (1952-2025)was a pioneering British documentary photographer and photojournalist renowned known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1994. Martin Parr has had around 40 solo photobooks published, and has featured in around 80 exhibitions worldwide – including the international touring exhibition ParrWorld, a retrospective at the Barbican Arts Centre, London and the Tate.

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