William Eggleston
William Eggleston
William Eggleston, is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth27 June 1939
CountryUnited States of America
impossible photograph follow-up
Whatever it is about pictures, photographs, it's just about impossible to follow up with words. They don't have anything to do with each other.
reason particular search-for-meaning
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
mean play ideas
Generally, that's what happens-a fundamental rotting of the idea. They woke up with the wrong idea. It's just like music: If you don't have an innate love or calling for it, then no matter how much you study or how well you can play by looking at the score, it doesn't mean that you're going to make really good music.
reason grew happened
It quickly came to be that I grew interested in photographing whatever was there wherever I happened to be. For any reason.
photography house
Photography just gets us out of the house.
photography drinking house
We have a few things in common - smoking, drinking, and women. Photography just gets us out of the house. (To photographer Juergen Teller)
taken two somewhere-else
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
important way photographer
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.
thinking use cameras
I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
photography war obvious
I am at war with the obvious.
photography people answers
Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
struggle artist ideas
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.