The protest box
By: edited by Martin Parr with an essay by Gerry Badger
Publisher: Steidl
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Göttingen, Germany
Language: mul; eng; jpn; ita; spa; ger
Number of pages: 888
ISBN-13: 9783869301426
Subjects: Protest movements; Pictorial works; Photographs
Description: Martin Parr's The protest box is a box set which brings together five photobooks as facsimile reprints. Parr has selected diverse books which each deal with the subject of protest in quite different ways. From the documentation of various protest movements to the actual book being a form of protest, all these reprints are gems within the history of photographic publishing. The box set is accompanied by a booklet which includes an introduction by Martin Parr, an essay discussing the wider context of these books by Gerry Badger, and English translations of all the texts in the books.
Notes: 6 books wrapped in 1 sheet of black paper.

Limited edition of 1,000 copies.

Texts in Spanish, Italian, German and Japanese, with English translations.
Table of contents: title: The protest box  -- Martin Parr; title: América: un viaje a través de la injustica  -- Enrique Bostelmann; title: Para verte mejor, América Latina  -- Paolo Gasparini, Edmundo Desnoes; title: Algerien -- L'; title: Algérie  -- Dirk Alvermann; title: Sanrizuka  -- Kitai Kazuo; title: Immagini del no -- Paolo Mattioli and Anna Candiani.