From "Cadillac"
The only thing I wanted to note about the January 12/19 issue of The Nation was a review of an exhibition of photographs by William Eggleston. So here are some photos by Eggleston, courtesy of The Eggleston Trust.
From "Southern Suite"
From "Eggleston"
- From “William Eggleston’s Graceland”
- From “14 Pictures”
- From “Troubled Waters”
Greenwood, Mississippi 1973 (aka The Red Ceiling)
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cymast
/ January 14, 2009Some photographer’s photos seem to have an electric glow . . these are among those.
acilius
/ January 14, 2009Yes, I like them.
cymast
/ January 15, 2009I somehow always find myself rolling my eyes at long, drawn-out reviews of photography exhibits.
acilius
/ January 15, 2009That review was longer than it needed to be, but I liked his little story about seeing some of Eggleston’s work, thinking “I could take pictures like that!” then getting a camera and after a while revising his thought to “I could take pictures like that- if I were William Eggleston.”
cymast
/ January 15, 2009That “little story” is exactly why I roll my eyes at verbose photo reviews. To me EVERY art photo is the result of the photographer wanting to convey a message, however, that message is ALWAYS invented per viewer. In photography more so than in any other medium, the very delivery demands the most subjectification.
acilius
/ January 16, 2009That seems like a pretty sophisticated understanding of the subject. My first reaction to a photo is always like Schwabsky’s. Hey, all you have to do is point and shoot, right? It’s only after I try and fail to come up with a picture worth looking at that it dawns on me that there is such a thing as photographic art.