British documentary photographer Martin Parr, who died in December aged 73, had no doubt which of his many thousands of images mattered most. He said, more than once, that when he reached the Pearly Gates, his 1986 photo series The Last Resort was what he'd pull out first.
The Martin Parr Foundation is now doing exactly that, with an exhibition in Bristol and an accompanying book that between them amount to the most thorough examination yet of the series that made him famous.
