Sunday, 17 October 2010

Following in William Eggleston's footsteps

William Eggleston is an American photographer who is known with making colour photography a recognised artistic way of expressionism in which people can relate to. His early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Robert Frank, and Henri Cartier-Bresson's, 'The decicive moment'.

William Eggleston's work is characterized by its ordinary expression and how it's been saturated just past maximum to make his photos have that Retro feeling to them. He has a unique ability to find beauty, and masses amounts of color, in ordinary surroundings, for example, a row of country mailboxes or a convenience store - all of these ordinary scenes give impact to the photos in which people love and can relate to by the rich expression of colours and realism of his photographs. He sees the beauty and uniqueness of the everday world.

I like William Eggleston's work as I can see these ordinary scenes in which you may go by everyday as unqiue and expressive artworks. Each photos gives impact of a different situation of everyday life and each give a bit of individuality. I like how he pushes the saturation just past boiling point so that you get the faded, sort of retro colours within the photos, I have tried to create this same feel within my photographs as well as William Egglestons uniqueness and American feel.


Here are some of my photographs inspired by William Eggleston's work:

























This series of photographs has been my best so far as I really liked this task and was able to respond to it much better than that of the others previous as this is the style of which I usually represnt my work within. I like the style of William Eggleston as its very playful and has that retro appeal to it.

By increasing the saturation of the photographs above I have been able to replicate the style and deep yet almost bright colours that William Eggleston uses within his work.


The way I have been able to capture the two girls jumping, above, is a great element to the photograph and really brings it alive and creates a realistic feel to it. The various colours within the photograph gives depth to it and it's a great response to William Eggleston's work. He has been a great inspiration to me.

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