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In the photo, Evening wraps, I had noticed the focus being a couple dressed in the earlier 40’s-50’s confiding with each other. They are walking across the streets of New York City with a sign pointing to the left saying ‘One Way’. Though the main characteristics I have seen was the not so saturated background, making a light and dark contrast from the bright red to the duller/cooler hued grays and blues and back. Another characteristic is the rule of thirds concept that this picture carries since they are not exactly in the middle but leaning or standing more towards the bottom right corner. Everything is accounted in the picture. The background, the city, the street and the couple. Nothing is too distant and out of focus, therefore everything has detail.
The meaning of this photo, Gordon’s definition, was to get the essence and sense of fashion which he loves within his camera. He shot many photos for vogue and life and essence just for the timed fashion of New York City. He moved to New York specifically because of his interest in the fast paced life that was so actively and lively throughout many different places. His models in this line of work was regular people of New York. He wanted to embody the fun and fashionable New York that many suburban people does not see.
Not so saturated is one way to put it. i would say to further emphasize this there isn’t anything in the photo that would distract from the rich color of the dress. The people in this photo are certainly models and Parks worked with the top models of his day.
In the resource which I asked you to read it talks about Parks reading Vogue and dreaming of being a fashion photographer. He got his first job for a local department store and totally blew it except for one frame. The rest is history.