Martin Parr shows Britain in all its 'stiff upper-lipped, jubilant glory'

Few people are better qualified than Martin Parr to curate an exhibition of photographs depicting Britain in all its eccentric, stiff upper-lipped, defiant, bloody, jubilant glory. And so it’s little wonder that Strange and Familiar: Britain Revealed by International Photographers at the Barbican (until 19 June) is such a hit.
Parr has brought together a rich assortment of images taken from the 1930s onwards by 23 photographers—none of them British. In the first half of the 20th cen