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03/28/2013 10:54:21 AM · #1 |
Im not very good at this style, but let's do a challenge
Masters of Photography: In the style of William Eggleston
Submit you best shot that conveys the style of William Eggleston See Eggleston images for examples.
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03/28/2013 11:01:02 AM · #2 |
Excellent idea.
Originally posted by wiki:
Eggleston's aesthetic
Eggleston's mature work is characterized by its ordinary subject-matter. As Eudora Welty noted in her introduction to The Democratic Forest, an Eggleston photograph might include "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 curb."
Eudora Welty suggests that Eggleston sees the complexity and beauty of the mundane world: "The extraordinary, compelling, honest, beautiful and unsparing photographs all have to do with the quality of our lives in the ongoing world: they succeed in showing us the grain of the present, like the cross-section of a tree.... They focus on the mundane world. But no subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world!" Mark Holborn, in his introduction to Ancient and Modern writes about the dark undercurrent of these mundane scenes as viewed through Eggleston's lens: "[Eggleston's] subjects are, on the surface, the ordinary inhabitants and environs of suburban Memphis and Mississippi--friends, family, barbecues, back yards, a tricycle and the clutter of the mundane. The normality of these subjects is deceptive, for behind the images there is a sense of lurking danger." American artist Edward Ruscha said of Eggleston's work, "When you see a picture he’s taken, you’re stepping into some kind of jagged world that seems like Eggleston World.”[1]
According to Philip Gefter from Art & Auction, "It is worth noting that Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, pioneers of color photography in the early 1970s, borrowed, consciously or not, from the photorealists. Their photographic interpretation of the American vernacular—gas stations, diners, parking lots—is foretold in photorealist paintings that preceded their pictures."[11] |
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03/28/2013 05:48:49 PM · #3 |
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03/28/2013 05:51:24 PM · #4 |
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03/28/2013 06:05:38 PM · #5 |
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03/28/2013 06:29:54 PM · #6 |
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03/28/2013 08:20:08 PM · #7 |
| you can tell how well you did by how low your score is. |
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03/28/2013 08:27:01 PM · #8 |
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03/28/2013 10:31:21 PM · #9 |
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04/04/2013 10:57:57 AM · #10 |
| I predict a lot of pictures of tricycles. |
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04/05/2013 01:52:57 AM · #11 |
William Eggleston to receive outstanding contribution to photography award
Timing would seem to be perfect for this challenge.
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04/05/2013 02:33:49 AM · #12 |
| Bring it on, the latest set of challenges are so derivative I'm going to take a shot of... never mind. YES! |
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04/05/2013 03:22:47 AM · #13 |
| I like the look of this, wonderful idea. |
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04/05/2013 03:25:59 AM · #14 |
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04/05/2013 03:31:16 AM · #15 |
| This could be our artless challenge. |
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04/05/2013 06:34:58 AM · #16 |
Yup. I had a shot one time of a trike in a yard that reminded me very much of his famous shot. I liked it a lot. I declined to enter it because I thought it would get creamed as a casual snapshot.
I like the topic.
Message edited by author 2013-04-05 10:47:18.
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05/20/2013 11:28:53 AM · #17 |
| I saw an Eggleston exhibit yesterday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Great stuff, but I couldn't help thinking how most of it would get *killed* by voters. |
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05/20/2013 12:29:55 PM · #18 |
| the real challenge is that Eggleston is a whole personality; the photographs are hints. |
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05/21/2013 12:51:06 PM · #19 |
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05/21/2013 01:00:50 PM · #20 |
| Seems like a good learning experience. |
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05/21/2013 02:13:44 PM · #21 |
My prediction is that the ribbons will look nothing like Eggleston.
I further predict that there'll be lots of pictures of tricycles. Inspiration, please. Not imitation.
But, yes. Let's do this! |
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05/23/2013 07:45:36 AM · #22 |
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