I was reading the price list of this lab in Chicago and it advertised ‘from the cheapest to the ultimate print’. The ultimate print was a dye-transfer…. The color saturation and the quality of the ink was overwhelming. I couldn’t wait to see what a plain Eggleston picture would look like with the same process. Continue reading William Eggleston
The Outlands series provides an opportunity to appreciate the breadth of Eggleston’s early color photography and recognize the larger themes and concerns in his work, which go beyond the initial debates they incited concerning their relationship with the so-called snapshot aesthetic and the place of color photography within the arts more generally. Continue reading William Eggleston
Considered the father of modern color photography, Eggleston elevated the medium to the art form that it is recognized as today. Eggleston’s novel pictorial style deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. Continue reading William Eggleston
Over the course of nearly six decades, Eggleston has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. Continue reading William Eggleston
photos: © Eggleston Artistic Trust . + The Metropolitan Museum of Art . J. Paul Getty Museum
William Eggleston assumes a neutral gaze and creates his art from commonplace subjects: a farmer’s muddy Ford truck, a red ceiling in a friend’s house, the contents of his own refrigerator. Continue reading William Eggleston
