I don't think it's anything particularly forced on Deborah. We've just always enjoyed the same sort of things

Martin Parr

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.

Palette

Art Terms

Inkjet print Photography Portrait Investigating identity Contemporary art Saturation Popular culture Documentary photography

Exhibitions

New Photography 2: Philip Lorca di Corcia, Mary Frey, and David Hanson

1986

New Photography 3: Paul Graham, Barbara Norfleet, and Thomas Roma

1987

Committed to Print

1988

British Drawings

1977