>>3780296Trash tier
His whole career rested on the novelty and gimmick of using colour film, at first he was derided for it and used that as influence as a counter culture artist, and after he was heralded for it and he sold himself as a visionary.
There was never any appreciation to any actual aspect of his work beyond the gimmick, and with good reason, I'll thought out, poorly composed snapshits.
The modern day equivalent is someone proclaiming their Instagram snaps are art, and riding the wave of controversy around the medium.
As a photographer, he is the absolute last person you should be looking up to. As a conceptual artist, he should be seen as little more than a lucky chancer.
>>3780301Martin pare should not be mentioned in the same sentence, Parr's whole shtick was about people, not medium gimmickry. Parr was seen as controversial for being exploitative and elitist, and still puts out solid work today documenting "the human condition", he is truly based.
