Publisher/Louis Vuitton Malletier

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"Fashion Eye United Kingdom" is a collection of works by Martin Parr (1952–2025), one of Britain's leading photographers. Published in 2024 as part of Louis Vuitton's "Fashion Eye" series, which explores the world through the photographer's unique perspective on travel, this is a representative work from his later years. Parr consistently captured consumer society, tourism, popular culture, and class consciousness with intense colors, flashes, humor, and irony. In this work, he turns his gaze to his homeland, depicting the people and daily lives of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland through approximately 100 photographs, including previously unpublished works taken after 1998. In addition to scenes of seaside holidays, picnics, weddings, meals, the Union Jack, and the royal family, the book also includes contrasting celebrations such as the Glastonbury Festival and the coronation of Charles III. It illuminates British society, where tradition and popular culture, class, and patriotism intersect, with a gaze that blends affection and incisive criticism. This collection of works, which could be called a "portrait of Britain," condenses into one volume the images of his homeland that he had observed for so long in his final years, before his death in 2025 at the age of 73.