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
taken thinking differences
I don't think that has ever changed. I don't think I see any more or any less than I did years ago. Let's say I have the print of a photo taken in the 1960s and one I took a month ago. I think it's pretty difficult to tell any difference, personally.
thinking people hanging-out
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.
thinking color years
There's plenty of film out there, and quadrillions of cameras that use film-I don't think it makes much sense not to use it. The thing that's going out is the manufacturing of the paper. Incidentally, all these years my wife has told me that I'm color-blind.
brother thinking daddy
Half voluntarily, half Winston's older brother [William] would take me in, saying, "Daddy, I think you oughta do this." And I'd say, "I think you're right, maybe I do need it." Sometimes a week later I'd leave the place; sometimes I'd stick it out for a month.
thinking able way
I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so to speak. And if you had had the experience of seeing at one time in your life, then you would know what it was like and be able to function. I've said this before, I think I could really photograph blind if I had to.
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.
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.
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.