The extent of photographer William Eggleston's influence will be apparent to anyone who's seen a movie by Jonathan Demme, David Lynch or Gus Van Sant. Fans of '70s power-pop and '80s roots-rock will recognize his images from the covers of albums by Big Star and Green on Red. Photographers will understand exactly what curator John Szarkowski was talking about when, in his now-famous catalog essay for Eggleston's 1976 one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art — the first for a color photographer — he calls Eggleston's work "the beginning of modern color photography." Using a costly dye-transfer color process that imbues his photographs with a startling intensity, Eggles...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins