80th birthday of #WilliamEggleston, an #American #photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for #colorphotography as a legitimate #artistic medium.
Eggleston's early #photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer #RobertFrank, and by French photographer #HenriCartierBresson's book, The Decisive Moment. Eggleston later recalled that the book was "the first serious book I found, from many awful books...I didn't understand it a bit, and then it sank in, and I realized, my God, this is a great one." First photographing in black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with #color in 1965 and 1966 after being introduced to the medium by #WilliamChristenberry.
#Colortransparency #film became his dominant medium in the later #1960s. Eggleston's development as a photographer seems to have taken place in relative isolation from other artists. In an interview, #JohnSzarkowski describes his first encounter with the young Eggleston in 1969 as being "absolutely out of the blue".
After reviewing Eggleston's work (which he recalled as a suitcase full of "drugstore" color prints) Szarkowski prevailed upon the #Photography Committee of #MoMA to buy one of Eggleston's photographs.
Happy birthday (21 July 1949)
Eggleston's early #photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer #RobertFrank, and by French photographer #HenriCartierBresson's book, The Decisive Moment. Eggleston later recalled that the book was "the first serious book I found, from many awful books...I didn't understand it a bit, and then it sank in, and I realized, my God, this is a great one." First photographing in black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with #color in 1965 and 1966 after being introduced to the medium by #WilliamChristenberry.
#Colortransparency #film became his dominant medium in the later #1960s. Eggleston's development as a photographer seems to have taken place in relative isolation from other artists. In an interview, #JohnSzarkowski describes his first encounter with the young Eggleston in 1969 as being "absolutely out of the blue".
After reviewing Eggleston's work (which he recalled as a suitcase full of "drugstore" color prints) Szarkowski prevailed upon the #Photography Committee of #MoMA to buy one of Eggleston's photographs.
Happy birthday (21 July 1949)
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