i do, in fact, know shit about things. i know who william eggleston is :-)
Who is William Eggleston? He has a fun name.
he’s a photographer who pretty much got the color photography industry started. before him, not a lot of people would use colors, as it was considered a waste of time and money, and most people would only really take photos of carefully staged situations and people.
eggleston, though, would take photos of every day, mundane scenes- gas stations and diners and strangers on the street. he basically would take moments from real life and translate them into images, practically identical to reality. it was pretty unheard of at the time, and pretty controversial.
