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New Color Photography
New Color is an important thread within the history of photography. Photographic practices since the 1970s that treat color not as decoration but as central to the production of meaning. This movement page brings together photographers, eras, and related contexts so readers can see how the approach developed, where it circulated, and which artists help define its historical position.
Basic facts
MovementNew Color
Photographers1
Overview
Photographic practices since the 1970s that treat color not as decoration but as central to the production of meaning.
Photographers
🇬🇧GB1952–
Martin Parr
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Documentary
DocumentaryNew Color+1
Martin Parr changed documentary photography by bringing saturated color, electronic flash, and intrusive closeness into the depiction of ordinary British life.