Tag: William Eggleston

  • Perfectly Boring

    Perfectly Boring

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    Perfectly Boring W illiam Eggleston first tried peyote one summer in the early 1960s while visiting a friend in … via Oxford American: William Eggleston first tried peyote one summer in the early 1960s while visiting a friend in Oxford, Mississippi. You can find the story in a memoir by University of Mississippi football star…

  • A dreamy road trip through the Mississippi Delta

    A dreamy road trip through the Mississippi Delta

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    A dreamy road trip through the Mississippi Delta Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi, American photographer William Eggleston is a poet of the American South. His vivid images of daily life helped establish colour photography as a medium of fine art during the ’70s. Galleri via Huck Magazine: https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/a-dreamy-road-trip-across-the-american-south/ Throughout the ’70s,…

  • Young Asian American Photographer Refreshes Vintage Eggleston Americana – VICE

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    Young Asian American Photographer Refreshes Vintage Eggleston Americana Photographers Tommy Kha and William Eggleston share their work in our annual photo issue. via Vice: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxkwm/young-asian-american-photographer-refreshes-vintage-eggleston-americana-v24n6 Photographers Tommy Kha and William Eggleston share their work in our annual photo issue.

  • Highly Personal Portraiture by William Eggleston – The New York Times

    Highly Personal Portraiture by William Eggleston – The New York Times

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    For William Eggleston, People Are Like Parking Lots The portraiture of William Eggleston, whose color photography helped shepherd the medium into the art world, is the exclusive feature of a new exhibit and book. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/highly-personal-portraiture-by-william-eggleston/?&_r=0&module=Slide&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-6&action=Escape&contentCollection=Blogs&slideshowTitle=Highly%20Personal%20Portraiture%20by%20William%20 Most portrait artists attempt to differentiate the emotional essence of each individual subject. But William Eggleston, a…

  • Juxtapoz Magazine – Video: William Eggleston – Imagine Documentary

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    Juxtapoz Magazine – Video: William Eggleston – Imagine Documentary For anyone interested in understanding the history and acceptance of photography as an art form, the work of William Egglestonis a pre-requisite… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/video-william-eggleston-imagine-documentary For anyone interested in understanding the history and acceptance of photography as an art form, the work of William Egglestonis a pre-requisite at some…

  • On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson

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    Link: Thomas Hawk Digital Connection » Blog Archive » On William Eggleston Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson “William, color is bullshit.”

  • Eggleston to Photo Community: Don’t Bother Me

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    Eggleston to Photo Community: Don’t Bother Me | PDNPulse Reclusive photographer William Eggleston has deigned to take a few written questions from photographers, curators, and fans, and the questions, along with his responses, were published yesterday in British newspaper The Independent. Among those who posed via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/04/eggleston-to-photo-community-dont-bother-me.html Eggleston’s terse, deadpan responses reveal so little…

  • At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston

    At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston

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    At War with the Obvious via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2013/04/slide-show-at-war-with-the-obvious-photographs-by-william-eggleston.html#slide_ss_0=1 “I am at war with the obvious,” the photographer William Eggleston said in a conversation with the author Mark Holborn, which became the afterward in Eggleston’s 1989 book, “The Democratic Forest.”

  • Q&A: Art Collector Jonathan Sobel Explains His Beef with William Eggleston

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    Link: PDN Here is the crux of the issue: Mr. Eggleston earns more money by the designation of the limited edition. The individual who buys the art has to pay more. So the artist directly benefits from that. It is the artist’s choice, and you can’t change the rules in the middle of the game

  • Worth a look: The Shooting Gallery – videos about photographers

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    The Shooting Gallery, a tumblr featuring videos about photographers. The videos are divided into two categories: photographers talking and photographers shooting. There are 14 pages of archives to the blog, in which you’ll find videos about the likes of Richard Prince, Donald Weber, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jeff Mermelstein, Stephen Shore, Terry Richardson, Juergen Teller, Cindy Sherman,…

  • Liz Kuball › William Eggleston: Democratic Camera at LACMA

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    what to make of William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, on view through January 16 at LACMA? What to make of my visceral response to it? Link: Liz Kuball › Blog: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera at LACMA

  • AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: "William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)"

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    The Democratic Forest, a most remarkable and beautiful book, is what is even rarer, and original one. Consisting entirely of the eloquent photographs of the American photographer William Eggleston, it begins as an autobiography might, with a setting for a life. Link: AMERICANSUBURB X: THEORY: “William Eggleston – Introduction to The Democratic Forest (1989)”

  • Exhibition review: William Eggleston

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    Eggleston’s Paris is a messy, often makeshift place – who else would be drawn to the milky water in a cement mixer? – which could indeed be any early 21st-century city. Graffiti is a recurring motif – on walls, vehicles, windows, billboards. Check it out here.

  • William Eggleston: “I am at war with the obvious.”

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    William Eggleston, a hero to so many photographers, finally agreed to talk about his art while a camera was running. Check it out here.