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DAY 233 | FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS |
Willing Eggleston (1939–)
SEEING THE SUBLIME IN THE MUNDANE
In her introduction to The Democratic Forest, a compendium of William Eggleston’s work, Eudora Welty states that an Eggleston photograph might contain, “old tyres, Dr. Pepper machines, discarded air-conditioners, vending machines, empty and dirty Coca-Cola bottles, torn posters, power poles and power wires, street barricades, one-way signs, detour signs, No Parking signs, parking meters and palm trees crowding the same kerb [sic].” Eggleston photographs democratically, finding beauty in the commonplace clutter of rundown suburban backyards and just ...
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