Wednesday, 23 January 2013

William Eggleston

William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media, and reportedly enjoyed buying postcards and cutting out pictures from magazines.
Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographerHenri Cartier-Bresson'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.





i really like the use of colour in these images. The first two images show good rules of thirds and i like the contracts created with the bright red walls agasist the black door, white wires and posters. the third picture is really nice the blue bike against the real world background works really well. On the picture with the car the colours are all quite matted, cold colours, the rules of thirds of this images is also very good and i think this images could be easily used to sell this car.

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