Global Warning Martin Parr, avec une introduction de Quentin Bajac et des essais de Jean-François Staszak, Roberta Sassatelli, Violette Pouillard et Adam Greenfield GLOBAL WARNING BY QUENTIN BAJAC Imagine a generative AI trained exclusively on Martin Parr’s...
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Global Warning Martin Parr, avec une introduction de Quentin Bajac et des essais de Jean-François Staszak, Roberta Sassatelli, Violette Pouillard et Adam Greenfield GLOBAL WARNING BY QUENTIN BAJAC Imagine a generative AI trained exclusively on Martin Parr’s living things. Through his unique gaze, Parr indirectly tack- work: the images it creates would form the portrait of a les several of the major causes of climate change in the world saturated with supermarkets, shopping centres, Anthropocene: intensive use of transportation, fossil fuels, crowded beaches and leisure parks, its scenery punctu- global overconsumption and environmental degradation. ated by a relentless repetition of visual elements in all four With hindsight, his scathing irony seems to place him within corners of the earth. A world filled with seemingly futile a certain tradition of British satire: Parr’s sharp humour and objects, fated to rapid obsolescence and their inevitable wry derision indirectly offer a critica
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