Photographer Martin Parr produced photographs that bring up emotions of discomfort, and lead you to forget about those photographed but about the emotion wh

ich they add to the image. Shocking pink nails against an over tanned aging body adds a cringe worthy element to one photograph in the collection along with again barbie pink slippers with crusty nails sticking out of the end. You feel as

though you are almost forced to see the unsettling truth that the images show.Away from Martin Parr's 'Common Sense' he always approached his subjects in a more polite way, and his photography was not in anyway nearly as shocking as this one collection. Perhaps this is why it it his most famous collection to date? Common sense. Begun in the mid 1990's
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