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
art became close incredibly john met museum supportive
I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
photography art black-and-white
Black-and-white photography, which I was doing in the very early days, was essentially called art photography and usually consisted of landscapes by people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. But photographs by people like Adams didn't interest me.
art magazines firsts
And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
art color museums
I would go there quite frequently. I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.
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.
I'm not particular. I don't have favourite pictures.
work
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
flow groups large music picture series versus work works
I like to think that my works flow like music. That may be one reason I work in large groups versus one picture of one thing; it's the flow of the whole series that counts.
colours work
Everything must work in concert. Composition is important, but so are many other things, from content to the way colours work with or against each other.
diane garry mostly people prints supportive
A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.
I don't think much about the digital world... because I am in the analog world!
work
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
front slowly
Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.
people appreciate imagine
I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify.