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
photograph
I like to photograph democratically.
want photographer
You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.
looks study photograph
I don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
photography school downtown
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
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.
photography attitude today
I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
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.
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)
important way photographer
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.
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.
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.