Black Country stories / Martin Parr.
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TextPublisher: Stockport : Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014Description: 137 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 33 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781907893636 (hbk.) :Uniform titles: Works. Selections Subject(s): Parr, Martin, 1952- | Photography, Artistic | Black Country (England) -- Pictorial worksDDC classification: 779.9'94249'0099 Summary: Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory photographing the Black Country. It was an area he knew little of, other than its reputation as a densely populated, post-industrial area; one in decline. Many of the industries that once made the Black Country great have declined, but numerous small factories and manufacturing businesses remain in good health. A degree of regeneration has also come as a result of the many immigrant communities that have made the Black Country their home.
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Over the last four years Martin Parr has been working on a commission for Multistory photographing the Black Country. It was an area he knew little of, other than its reputation as a densely populated, post-industrial area; one in decline. Many of the industries that once made the Black Country great have declined, but numerous small factories and manufacturing businesses remain in good health. A degree of regeneration has also come as a result of the many immigrant communities that have made the Black Country their home.
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