Thursday, January 8, 2009

William Eggleston and Stephen Shore...

Are two photographers who I've been turned on to recently. Apparently both of them pioneered color photography as an art form in the 70s. Eggleston's was the first one-person exhibition of color photographs in the history of New York's MOMA. He used dye transfers to get extreme saturation out of his prints, that combined with his ability to find interesting concentrations of hue in mundane places results in some pretty intriguing stuff. Stephen Shore was kind of doing the same thing. Both of them manage to create some pretty great images, stuff that I wouldn't think to capture.



1 comment:

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