I don't think it's anything particularly forced on Deborah. We've just always enjoyed the same sort of things
Martin Parr
British, 1952–2025
1991
A 1991 inkjet print photograph by Martin Parr that stages two women in matching red outfits in a domestic sitting room to probe how taste and identity are performed and displayed.
You're first struck by the saturated reds—the dresses, armchairs, and swags of curtain—set against the bright bay window, which flattens the scene into a slightly comic, carefully posed tableau of domestic display.
Part of Parr’s incisive, hyper‑saturated study of late 20th‑century British consumer culture, the work uses irony and meticulous composition to expose how style, class, and ritual are performed in everyday life, influencing contemporary color documentary photography.
Medium
Inkjet print
Dimensions
17 × 21" (43.2 × 53.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Charles Heilbronn
Accession
1014.2014
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