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威廉．艾格斯頓
Untitled
Frame: 112.4 x 151.8 cm (44 1/4 x 59 3/4 in. )
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William Eggleston
This intriguing image is from William Eggleston’s celebrated Los Alamos series. Named after the nuclear testing site in New Mexico, Los Alamos consists of images taken between 1965-1974 across the southern United States, from New Orleans to Santa Monica.
Eggleston’s observation of beauty captures unexpected moments in the everyday world surrounding him. In the present work, the contrast of the cold fluorescent light against the intense darkness of the motel room demonstrates Eggleston’s ability to create arresting compositions from unremarkable settings. This was one of 75 images, selected from over 2,000 negatives, that were published in the 2003 Los Alamos portfolio.
威廉．艾格斯頓
American | 1939William Eggleston's highly saturated, vivid images, predominantly capturing the American South, highlight the beauty and lush diversity in the unassuming everyday. Although influenced by legends of street photography Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston broke away from traditional black and white photography and started experimenting with color in the late 1960s.
At the time, color photography was widely associated with the commercial rather than fine art — something that Eggleston sought to change. His 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Color Photographs, fundamentally shifted how color photography was viewed within an art context, ushering in institutional acceptance and helping to ensure Eggleston's significant legacy in the history of photography.