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
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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.
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.
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Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.
black-and-white people 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. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.
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A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
front slowly
Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.