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"'Color is Power' was an advertising slogan of the cosmetics company Avon. Power for what? The power to seduce? The power to control? In our postmodern society, advertising is increasingly hidden and insidious. More than ever, color is a major component in attempts to attract attention in the new millennium's media landscape, or, as Canon shamelessly proclaims: Image is everything! For over 25 years, Robert WALKER has been on the trail of the truly colorful hustle and bustle of the metropolis in North American and European cities: the shrill colors, the dissonant temptations. He searches for the strange and absurd in the orderly chaos. For all his sense of calculated confusion, he is not without compassion for the people who have to fight their way through the urban jungle." (© Steidl Verlag, 2003)