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
William Eggleston quotes about
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.
work
You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.
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.
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.
work
I work very quickly. I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two.
struggle artist ideas
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
taken two somewhere-else
I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.
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)
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.
taken mean people
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 house
Photography just gets us out of the house.
interesting quality down-and
I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.
reason particular search-for-meaning
There is no particular reason to search for meaning.
drunk useless waste
Only the few times I've been to so-called treatment centers, which were a complete waste of money and useless. I didn't know what I was doing at the time, because I was always drunk when I checked in.