Editing Martin Parr (section)

===Collector===

====Photobooks====
Parr is a collector and critic of photobooks.<ref name="liz-jobey-ft">{{cite news |url = http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/83acb960-a981-11e3-9b71-00144feab7de.html | date = 14 March 2014 | access-date = 15 March 2014 | first= Liz | last= Jobey | newspaper = [[Financial Times]] | title = Collecting with the FT: Martin Parr | quote = We are here to talk about his books but Parr collects pretty much everything, from Chinese Mao-era tea caddies to miniature televisions, commemorative plates to cigarette cases decorated with Soviet space-dogs ... his most enduring legacy is likely to be the 12,000 photography books he has collected over the past 35 years. What began as a hobby has developed into a mission to change the way the history of photography is defined and understood. As a collector, he has discovered, documented and promoted previously unknown areas of photographic bookmaking.}}</ref><ref name="bbc-imagine">[[Imagine (TV series)]], Season 2, Episode 4, The World According to Parr, 3 December 2003</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Why-Gerhard-Steidl-I-8777.shtml | date = 13 August 2013 | access-date = 30 July 2014 | last = Walker | first = David | publisher = [[Photo District News]] | title = Why Gerhard Steidl Is a Book Publishing Master | quote = photographer Martin Parr, who is also an authority on photography books.}}</ref> His collaboration with the critic [[Gerry Badger]], ''The Photobook: A History'' (in three volumes) covers more than 1,000 examples of photobooks from the 19th century through to the present day. The first two volumes took eight years to complete.<ref name="MPI" /> Tate Modern's retrospective exhibition of [[Daidō Moriyama]] in London included many Moriyama books loaned from Parr displayed in vitrines.

====Other items====
Parr also collects postcards, photographs and various other items of vernacular and popular culture<ref name="liz-jobey-ft" /> such as wallpaper, Saddam Hussein watches and prostitute advertising cards from phoneboxes (items with a photograph on them).<ref name="bbc-imagine" /><ref name="nancy-banks-smith">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/dec/04/broadcasting.tvandradio | date = 4 December 2003 | access-date = 2 April 2014 | first = Nancy | last = Banks-Smith | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = No more Mr nice guy | quote = Imagine... The World According to Parr (BBC1) ... He is a passionate collector of things that are going, going, gone. Everything must have a photograph on it. "I have been collecting wallpaper for 30 years. Concorde wallpaper, ET wallpaper, the Beatles. Once you start it's hard to give up. Ah!" he pounced on a cardboard box, "The Spice Girls ephemera!" He spread his collection of tin trays on the floor and his watches with Saddam Hussein on the face. When he is in London he adds to his collection of prostitutes' cards from phone boxes.}}</ref> Here too, items from his collections have been used as the basis for publications and exhibitions. Since the 1970s, Parr has collected and publicised the garish postcards made between the 1950s and 1970s by John Hinde and his team of photographers.<ref name="sean-ohagan-john-hinde" />