William Eggleston Quotes

William Eggleston — American Photographer born on June 27, 1939,

William Eggleston, is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries... (wikipedia)

Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.

I met and became close with John Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art. He was incredibly supportive about me working in color.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.

You want to make the photograph work in every way possible. Doesn't matter where it is in the world.

A lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white - people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing.

William Eggleston Quotes

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