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All that said, I can't imagine straight forward studio portraiture being his 'bag' but maybe I'm missing the point or perhaps he has more sides than I am aware of.
At his retrospective at the Barbican in about 2002/3 he'd done some fairly conventional studio self-portraiture. It was a pastiche of classic 80's/90's studio stuff. IMHO he was asking people to judge him like he supposedly judged his subjects, or presenting himself in the way his critics assumed he was - middle class and snobbish.
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Parr came to our college/uni to do a talk, something that he supposedly hates doing but I think one of the other students cheekily emailed him and asked him to come and he was just like "Aye, fuck it, why not". He then later donated a framed print for an auction we did to raise funds for our degree show.
The uni was University of the West of Scotland which is like the
PrimarkPot Noodle of unis so was pretty surprised he wasn't snobbish about it.All that said, I can't imagine straight forward studio portraiture being his 'bag' but maybe I'm missing the point or perhaps he has more sides than I am aware of.