{"id":7795,"date":"2010-11-16T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=7795"},"modified":"2011-01-11T15:02:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:02:04","slug":"william-eggleston-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/william-eggleston-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"William Eggleston: For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7812\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7812\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 1\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-11.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-11-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Eggleston, 1970. Photographer unknown.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>William Eggleston\u2019s color photographs are among the most widely viewed, and widely admired, in the medium.  But I wanted to survey Eggleston\u2019s unseen, unpublished work\u2014his B-sides, bootlegs, unreleased tracks\u2014and to that end I made five trips to Memphis in the course of a year, rummaging through roughly 35,000 digital scans archived by the Eggleston Artistic Trust. The intention was to come up with a book of images rescued from near oblivion.  The resulting selection\u2014necessarily partial, narrow, subjective\u2014favors pictures of people, many of them the photographer\u2019s blood relatives and close friends, a few of which appear below. When I reviewed an early layout with Bill, he was pleased to be confronted with images he\u2019d clean forgotten about, and he provided considered commentary.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7801\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-2-Marcia-Hare1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-2-Marcia-Hare1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 2 (Marcia Hare)\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-2-Marcia-Hare1.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-2-Marcia-Hare1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (Marcia Hare), early 1970s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \u201cShe used to dance onstage with a hippie band called Insect Trust. Their music, you could say, was too new for me. You could say I never made the mistake of listening to their music. I was studying Bach at the time. I never made a mistake when I listened to Bach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7806\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-3-Hohenburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-3-Hohenburg.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 3 (Hohenburg)\" width=\"572\" height=\"377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-3-Hohenburg.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-3-Hohenburg-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Untitled (Julian Hohenberg), Algiers, Louisiana, early 1970s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cA cotton merchant. His fortune soared in the billions. He lost it all at once. His competitors ganged up and brought him down.\u201d Hohenberg financed the first dye-transfer portfolio of Eggleston images, <em>14 Pictures<\/em>, in 1974. \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019ll ever know how important that was to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7807\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-4-Boring.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-4-Boring.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 4 (Boring)\" width=\"572\" height=\"389\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-4-Boring.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-4-Boring-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7807\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (T. C. Boring), Greenwood, Mississippi, early 1970s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was a dentist. We immediately became best friends. I can\u2019t even say why. I\u2019ll think about it, and if I come up with anything, you\u2019ll be the first to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>T. C., alone in a graffiti-scrawled room, is the solitary nude in \u201cWilliam Eggleston\u2019s Guide\u201d (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976). The blood-red ceiling, one of Eggleston\u2019s most iconic images, was located under T. C.\u2019s roof in Greenwood, Mississippi, though that home, Bill takes pains to insist, is not the site on view here.<\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7809\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 5\" width=\"572\" height=\"378\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-5.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (Vernon Richards with William Eggleston III), Memphis, Tennessee, early 1970s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Richards was \u201ca close friend from childhood, in Sumner, Mississippi.\u201d  He appears extensively in Eggleston\u2019s epic video, <em>Stranded in Canton<\/em>, and assisted in the taking of flash-lit nightclub portraits during the same period.  He\u2019s also visible, beardless, in the \u201cGuide,\u201d gazing from within a parked car, above two bare feet, crossed at the ankles, braced on the car door. <\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7809\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-6-Art-Car1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7809\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-6-Art-Car1.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled, Windsor Ruins, Mississippi, early 1980s.\" title=\"Egg 6 Art Car\" width=\"572\" height=\"386\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-6-Art-Car1.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-6-Art-Car1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, Windsor Ruins, Mississippi, early 1980s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This officially designated \u201cart car\u201d was painted by Tom Young, formerly Eggleston\u2019s instructor at the University of Mississippi, and was driven in a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade.  \u201cHe polished it, then painted it, then polished it some more.  He spent months on it.  He took it very seriously.\u201d  The columns are the lone surviving remnants of the Windsor Plantation, lost to fire in 1890.  \u201cThat car\u2019s probably the last thing you\u2019d expect to see at that spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center>\u00a7<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7808\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-7-Young.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7808\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-7-Young.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Egg 7 (Young)\" width=\"572\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-7-Young.jpg 572w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Egg-7-Young-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled (Tom Young), early 1980s.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tom Young is also responsible for supplying young Eggleston with early, oracular advice, commanding him to photograph things around him, even or especially things he hated.  From this, Eggleston extracted a credo, transforming hatred to love. His much-quoted remark\u2014\u201cI\u2019ve been photographing democratically\u201d\u2014offers a measure of this reversal, his all-encompassing embrace and its Whitmanesque reach, whereby nearly every subject caught by his camera becomes part of an overflowing family album.<\/p>\n<p><em>William Eggleston is among the most celebrated and influential photographers of the postwar era; the traveling exhibition &#8220;William Eggleston: Democratic Camera&#8221; is on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through January.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Almereyda\u2019s films include <\/em>Nadja<em> (1994), <\/em>Hamlet <em>(2000), and <\/em>William Eggleston in the Real World <em>(2005). This text is excerpted from his afterword to <\/em>William Eggleston: For Now,<em> which gathers nearly ninety previously unknown Eggleston photographs in one volume and has just been published by <a href=\"http:\/\/twinpalms.com\/\">Twin Palms<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Eggleston\u2019s color photographs are among the most widely viewed, and widely admired, in the medium. 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