January 13th, 2017

William eggleston

Eggleston photographed his home town, memphis- Tennessee he was interested in the infra ordinary- at war with he obvious. Eggleston used dye transfer process with E-6 colour film, he realised that colour was infra ordinary- a sin to photography as the prominent photographic film used in the 1960's and 70's was black and white. The camera is used to describe things, so using colour helped him describe more. Eggleston described his photography as democratic, meaning he is at war with the obvious.