Editing Martin Parr (section)

====The middle class, ''The Cost of Living'' (1987–1989)====
In 1985 Parr completed a commission for the [[Documentary Photography Archive]] in Manchester to photograph people at supermarkets in Salford, ''Retailing in the Borough of Salford'', which is now held at the archive.<ref name="guardian-stauntun">{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2009/apr/05/photography-archives-britain | date = 5 April 2009 | access-date = 24 May 2015 | first = Eithne | last = Staunton | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | location = London | title = Snap happy – photography archives}}</ref>

He and his wife moved to Bristol in 1987,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.bristol.gov.uk/press/leisure-and-culture/last-chance-see-martin-parr-exhibition-m-shed | date = 15 November 2011 | access-date = 5 January 2014 | publisher = [[Bristol City Council]] | title = Last chance to see: Martin Parr Exhibition at M Shed | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140106041359/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/press/leisure-and-culture/last-chance-see-martin-parr-exhibition-m-shed | archive-date = 6 January 2014 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> where they still live. During 1987 and 1988 he completed his next major project, on the middle class, who were at that time becoming increasingly affluent under [[Thatcherism]]. He photographed middle-class activities such as shopping, dinner parties and school open days,<ref name="va-new-brighton">{{cite web|url = http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/2584 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | publisher = [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] | title = Martin Parr, 'New Brighton' | quote = This photograph can be found in Print Room Box 14a.}}</ref> predominantly around Bristol and Bath<ref name="parr-by-parr" />{{rp|42}} in the southwest of England. It was published as his next book ''The Cost of Living'' (1989) and exhibited in Bath, London, Oxford and Paris.

His book ''One Day Trip'' (1989) featured photographs taken when he accompanied people on a [[booze cruise]] to France, a commission from Mission Photographique Transmanche.