Martin Parr’s Mexico
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I was at the National Gallery of Art the other day seeing the Jasper Johns thing and 
afterwards I was poking around in the book store, which is really the best part of the National Gallery, and I came across MEXICO by Martin Parr. It’s the best book ever. I love Martin Parr. I love Mexico. A union of these two forces is a mindboggling thing to witness.
Parr approaches our Southerly neighbor with the wit that has come to be associated with him. Looking at these colorful pages, it would seem that no bit of irony, not matter how minute, has escaped his lens. The books main themes deal with the globalizing Mexican society and the divides between traditional Mexican culture and Americanization, the rich and poor, the white and the non-white, are clear. Though, naturally, the work does not moralize. Instead, it just presents a the contrasts of a culture in transition, narrative in Red, Green and White.