This is a photograph taken by William Eggleston. Eggleston is the godfather of color photography and is from the Mississippi delta which is where I was born and raised. He now lives in Memphis, Tennessee and is still active in the photography world. I relate to his photographs. They are the type of photographs that when once viewed plague your everyday visions. You seem to ask yourself or tell yourself rather that everything you see should be photographed. "I should take a picture of that" you seem to say to yourself. I guess his photos also remind me of home and excite a kind of nostalgia within me. Eggleston once commented on the fact that everything around him was so ugly to which his friend responded "Well take photos of the ugly stuff then." Well what he seemed to do was not just take photos of ugly stuff but transform the ugly stuff into beauty. The ordinary is gorgeous.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Eggleston Photo
This is a photograph taken by William Eggleston. Eggleston is the godfather of color photography and is from the Mississippi delta which is where I was born and raised. He now lives in Memphis, Tennessee and is still active in the photography world. I relate to his photographs. They are the type of photographs that when once viewed plague your everyday visions. You seem to ask yourself or tell yourself rather that everything you see should be photographed. "I should take a picture of that" you seem to say to yourself. I guess his photos also remind me of home and excite a kind of nostalgia within me. Eggleston once commented on the fact that everything around him was so ugly to which his friend responded "Well take photos of the ugly stuff then." Well what he seemed to do was not just take photos of ugly stuff but transform the ugly stuff into beauty. The ordinary is gorgeous.
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I really like the photo and like what you have to say even more. It's funny--after a photography class, "I should take a picture of that" entered my head several times a day; three years have passed and now I seldom find myself thinking it.
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