Editing Martin Parr (section)

====Global consumerism, ''Common Sense'' (1995–1999)====

Between 1995 and 1999 Parr made the series ''Common Sense'' about global consumerism. ''Common Sense'' was an exhibition of 350 prints, and a book published in 1999 with 158 images. The exhibition was first shown in 1999 and was staged simultaneously in forty-one venues in seventeen countries.<ref name="tate-common-sense">{{cite web|url = https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/parr-common-sense-p78371/text-summary | date = February 2004 | access-date = 10 April 2014 | work = [[Tate Etc.]] | title = Martin Parr Common Sense 1995-9}}</ref> The pictures depict the minutiae of consumer culture, and are intended to show the ways in which people entertain themselves. The photographs were taken with 35&nbsp;mm ultra-saturated film for its vivid, heightened colours.<ref name="tate-common-sense" />
<!-- [[Sean O'Hagan (journalist)|Sean O'Hagan]], writing in ''The Guardian'', named ''Up and Down Peachtree'' in his list of best photography books of 2012.<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/dec/02/best-photography-books-of-2012 | date = 2 December 2012 | access-date = 6 January 2014 | first= Sean |last= O'Hagan | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | title = Best photography books of 2012 | quote = Another Magnum photographer, the prodigious Martin Parr, turned his acid eye on America for the first time with Up and Down Peachtree (Contrasto £25), a series of colour snapshots from Atlanta, Georgia of the garish and the intimate.}}</ref> -->