^ Photo by W.Eggleston
Last week was full of work revelations.
First we managed to score couple of work interviews, second out tutor invited MFA students to a screening of Michael Almereyda's documentary film on one of my favourite photographers: "William Eggleston In The Real World".
His first major, breakthrough exhibition came from MoMA's famous curator John Szarkowski invitation when Eggleston was 37 years old (so I still have some time to conquer NY then hihi) and which became the most hated exhibition of the year. Still Szakowski wrote in his essay about Eggleston's work that "world contains now more pictures than bricks and they are all astonishingly different".
What I really like about Eggleston is that he is interested in a nature of perception - he just likes taking pictures or making music (with his awful electric piano) or drawings but does not have any emotional response to any of these activities. Therefore he is completely useless when confronted with talking about his work - people who are expecting him to give an indepth explanations are going to be seriously disappointed but the whole attempt at trying to drag out some form of a comment from the artist are in the end most comical in the whole documentary.
I also liked the fact that Eggleston still uses a very oldfashioned westontype lightmeter and is not affraid to be filmed when completely drunk in his stripy underpants.
P.S. Fragments of the film are available at youtube as well as Eggleston video work, which make Andy Warhol look like a kid in comparison.
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