William Eggleston

I n the Introduction to Ancient and Modern times, Mark Holborn expresses vibrantly what I like to assume is William Eggleston’s epiphany towards color:

William Eggleston was driving with the writer Stanley Booth from Georgia to Tennessee. It was 1978 and Eggleston had acquired an early Kodak instant camera. He started to photograph out of the window of the car and pointed the camera at the sky. The small, rectangular color prints looked to him like fragments of frescoes. The following day he lay back on the ground and looked up at the sky above him.

Shown Above: (left) from Pictures From Eve's Bayou and (right) from Dust Bells Volume 2