Overview
- The foundation announced on Sunday that Parr died Saturday at his home in Bristol at age 73.
- No cause was disclosed, though previous reporting noted he had revealed a myeloma diagnosis in 2021.
- His 1986 book The Last Resort, shot in New Brighton, became a landmark of color documentary photography and drew debate over class representation.
- Parr joined Magnum Photos in 1994, served as its president from 2013 to 2017, and launched the Martin Parr Foundation in 2014 to house his archive.
- He remained active into his 70s, recently releasing the autobiographical Utterly Lazy and Inattentive, with his work collected by MoMA, Tate and the Centre Pompidou.