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Martin Parr - Luxury

Janet Borden is pleased to announce LUXURY, an important exhibition of new photographs by renowned photographer Martin Parr. The show will run from March 9 – April 24, 2010.

Parr has compiled images from various locales throughout the world, from Paris to Moscow, from Durban to Dubai. Gatherings at horse races, art fairs (they're remarkably similar,) concerts and ski slopes, provide Parr with an extraordinary wealth of observations.

Is luxury money, is it excess, is it the enjoyment of arcane pleasures? A cacophony of colors and Parr’s signature love of absurdity, are on view in these charming yet disturbing photographs. The flash, the dressing up and partying, the seemingly coincidental matching of patterns and colors in unlikely places, all commingle in this body of colorful and witty work. In a world seemingly in economic decline, these photographs are all the more revealing and poignant.