William Eggleston
Musik
Release Date: Oct 20, 2017
Genre(s): Classical, Avant-Garde
Record label: Secretly Canadian
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Album Review: Musik by William Eggleston
Fairly Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 6.4/10
There's a William Eggleston photograph that I think of every time I travel; as memorable and satisfying as the hook of a pop song, it's been embedded in my subconscious since the moment I first saw it. Eggleston, a Memphis-born photographer known for his color-saturated work, took the photo, called "Untitled (Glass in Airplane)," sometime between 1965 and 1974. It depicts a drink on the tray table of an airplane seat--rum and coke, by the looks of it.
Opinion: Very Good
In 1983 William Eggleston, a pioneer of colour photography in the fine art context, went to take pictures of Graceland. Elvis's rooms are crammed with synthetic colours and materials, but Eggleston lends his images a trademark intimacy, picturing the kitschy interiors eerily close-up and rendering them eerily quiet. Everything looks constructed, fake, but fake like how Eggleston's photographs - quotidian images of Southern life - often look fake.
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