Martin Parr puts the world to rights in this comprehensive catalogue of five decades of his photographs, published to accompany a major exhibition at Jeu de Paume in Paris

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Martin Parr's distinctive style has established him as a leading cultural commentator in contemporary photography. Since the 1970s, he has depicted subjects ranging from consumerism and British identity to the art of the self-portrait, and his insight and originality is universally admired. Parr has published over 120 photobooks, and his work has been recognized with major awards and over 100 exhibitions worldwide. Quentin Bajac is director of Jeu de Paume, an arts centre in Paris dedicated to contemporary photography and media. He was previously chief curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Jean-François Staszak is a full professor in the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Roberta Sassatelli is a full professor of sociology in the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna in Italy. Violette Pouillard is a permanent research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and visiting professor at Ghent University in Belgium. Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. In 2013 he was selected as Senior Urban Fellow at the LSE Cities centre of the London School of Economics.