{"id":310264,"date":"2026-02-21T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310264\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:40:07","slug":"new-photography-exhibition-in-bristol-celebrates-martin-parr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/310264\/","title":{"rendered":"New photography exhibition in Bristol celebrates Martin Parr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Parr&#8217;s works were known for capturing the smallest details of everyday life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His photographs were playful and had humour, but also provoked debate and discussion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When the photos were exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 1986, Parr was berated for being patronising and voyeuristic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People from London and the South East, they really didn&#8217;t know what places in the North looked like,&#8221; said Parr before his death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The litter was quite terrible, but they just weren&#8217;t used to it; so it was almost like it was my fault that the place looked so scruffy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parr&#8217;s works were known for capturing the smallest details of everyday life. His photographs were playful and had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-310264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}