Artist: William Eggleston
Date: 1980
Title: Troubled Waters series
I really appreciate Eggleston's ability to find extraordinary color schemes and composition from the mundane. For instance in the top picture the colors are somehow very close schematically and seem better than your average frozen goods. Then in the bottom picture there is this odd pink glow on a seemingly everyday gas station. I love the candid, yet mastered aspect to his photos. I could scroll through them for hours... haha
Eggleston is a master of capturing the ordinary and making it beautiful. If you like his photos, he made weird videos back in the day that are pretty enjoyable to watch. Eggleston was a rebel in photography and he didn't even know because he was too busy being amazing.
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