When I was in Sweden for the European MS meeting, ECTRIMs, I had some time to visit the Hasselblad Center’s exhibition of William Eggleston’s recent Paris show.
Eggleston’s characteristic depictions of simple, often solitary places in the American south were elevated to the level of fine art. Now, thirty years after his breakthrough at MoMA, Eggleston portrays Paris in the same austere fashion and with the same sense of pop cultural details he once found in the outskirts of Memphis
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I was heartened looking at his images. They represent the kind of closely examined details that I’m drawn to. While I’m often capturing images in cities, my environment is this suburban landscape. And I think it deserves close observation. Eggleston’s work shows me how far I have to go in that exploration.
