— unpredictable thoughts

William Eggle­ston : Demo­c­ra­tic Cam­era
Pho­tographs and Video
1961 — 2008

I missed this ret­ro­spec­tive. I miss lots of exhi­bi­tions actu­ally. I think that is partly about being focused on mak­ing time to make my art. Not an excuse. Just a thought. I was pointed to an online post by @barbaralevine.

It con­tained this first video from the son’s point of view. A mov­ing rec­ol­lec­tion of how mak­ing art is such an every­day expe­ri­ence and how his expo­sure to the mak­ing of art, the expe­ri­ence of a life­long rit­ual of mak­ing pic­tures, cre­ated a dia­logue that fills the pic­tures with approach­able words. The sec­ond video is a con­ver­sa­tion with the artist.

Thank you to Barabara for her tweet and thank you to the Whit­ney for such a thought­ful pre­sen­ta­tion on the web. Visit the mini site, although these are very thought­ful con­ver­sa­tions there is some­thing about look­ing at the pic­tures still and silent.

“He didn’t mean for any of his pic­tures to make any kind of state­ment. They just are what they are and how he’d like them to look I guess.”

— Win­ston Eggleston

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

— William Eggle­ston

The ret­ro­spect mini web­site:
http://whitney.org/www/eggleston/

Blog site from the tweet:
http://www.aphotoeditor.com

Tags: demo­c­ra­t­ic­cam­era, ret­ro­spec­tive, William Eggle­ston, pho­tographs, Whiteny Museum