Martin Parr is a key figure in the world of photography and contemporary art. Some accuse him of cruelty, but many more appreciate the wit and irony with which he tackles such subjects as bad taste, food, the tourist, shopping and the foibles of the British. Parr has been collecting postcards for twenty years, and here is the cream of his collection his boring postcards. With no introduction or commentary of any kind, Parr´s boring postcards are reproduced straight: theyare exactly what they say they are, namely boring picture postcards showing boring photographs of boring places, presumably for boring people to buy to send to their boring friends. All of them are shot in Britain. Boring Postcards is multi-layered: a commentary on British architecture, social life and identity, arecord of a folk photography which is today being appropriated by the most fashionable photographers an exercise in sublime minimalism and, above all, a richly comic photographic entertainment.
