Maybe It's the Color (3)

"Color photography is vulgar," said Walker Evans. And he was right. Vulgarity is one of the things for which color is especially suited.

Martin Parr is a master of colorful vulgarity.


Martin Parr, Common Sense, 1995-1998. Copyright M. Parr.


Martin Parr, Common Sense (Blue Lady), 1995-1998. Copyright M. Parr.

You have to love the guy.

(And Evans would have approved. As he added: "When the point of a picture subject is precisely the vulgarity . . . then only color film can be used . . . .")