Small World (2026 ed.)

This revised edition includes more than 80 photographs and features many new photos as well as Martin Parr’s most iconic images.

First published in 1996 Small World is one of the most popular and most important of Martin Parr’s books. It has been in print continuously since its first publication, thirty years ago.

Ez egy maró, nagyon vicces szatíra, amelyben Parr a világméretű turizmust vizsgálja, feltárva az egyre homogénebb „globális kultúrát”, ahol a különböző kultúrák keresése során ugyanazok a kultúrák pusztulnak el. A „szénlábnyom”, a globális felmelegedés és az éghajlati válság világában azok a kérdések, amelyeket Parr közel harminc évvel ezelőtt, a könyv első megjelenésekor vetett fel, ma még relevánsabbak.

Whilst Parr’s larger‐than‐life troupe of tourists appear willing participants in an omnipresent consumer culture they are also bemused victims – at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into their insatiable craving for spectacle. Small World‘s citizens become a symbol of Western society’s prosperous freedoms, declaring their power and their rights to travel, to choose and to consume.

A member of the prestiguous MAGNUM photo agency Martin Parr was one of the best known photographers in the world. He published innumerable books and his work has been exhibited and published worldwide.