The Last Resort

If I had to put money on any of this year’s photography books becoming a classic, The Last Resort would be it.’\n– David Lee, Arts Review, August 1986.\n\n’Quite why Parr’s normally agreeable sense of humour has been replaced by such a savage, almost disgusted viewpoint, is hard to fathom’ – Robert Morris, British Journal of Photography, August 1986\n\nMartin Parr’s classic 1986 book Last Resort remains hugely controversial. Described by some as cruel and voyeuristic, and by others as a stunning satire on the state of Britain, it established him as one of the world’s most influential and admired photographers and revolutionised documentary photography in Britain.