Martin Parr UK, b1952
No Smoking
2024, The Rocket Press, London
AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER – RELEASES NOVEMBER 8
Rocket announces publication of a new book of photographs by the internationally renowned British photographer Martin Parr. This limited edition photobook 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 and published by The Rocket Press in a limited edition of 750 numbered copies, supported by DMB Represents.
Hardback, 96 pp, 73 full-colour and b&w photographs, printed by die Keure, Bruges and housed in a screen-printed 'filter paper' cardboard case
ISBN 978 1 9161033 2 0
Each copy is individually numbered and copies ordered here will be signed by Martin Parr : publication date is 8 November 2024
Standard edition: 725 copies , numbered 26 to 750
Deluxe edition: 25 copies, numbered 1 to 25, the book housed in a cloth-bound solander box and accompanied by a signed & numbered colour archival pigment photograph.(Benidorm, 1997)
Orders will be allocated in strict numerical order and will be shipped after 14 November 2024 [deluxe copies shipped in December]