I know I’m pretty late to the William Eggleston fanclub. Over the years I saw a few of his photos floating around on fashion blogs but I never really paid careful attention to his stuff until I went through one of his books at my friend Jamie’s apartment. So this weekend I took another William Eggleston book out of the library and learned all sorts of things about him. How come I never knew he was from the south? Or that he did a book that’s sort of William Faulkner-related?
Well, some of these photos are from the book I checked out and some aren’t. I stole them all off the internet, and as far as I know most of them were taken all across the south–Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas . . . . That city skyline one is Atlanta back in the ’80s! Of course I like the rural country road photos best, if only because they make me more excited to go see my family in Tennessee on Thursday.
Thank you for sharing this!! I guess I’m even later to learn about Eggleston, but I’m in love with these pictures.
My mother’s side of the family is from Northern Mississippi, and I get so fascinated and sentimental about vintagey images of the rural South. These are just gorgeous.
Some of these pics remind me of “Carnivale,” which is always a good thing!
what lovely, lovely pictures!
These are so beautiful…so quintessentially american.
The one with the dusty road and the pile of lumber… that one is really special. Catches at my heart a little bit.
Such beautiful photography, the one of the rusty bench on the porch in particular. I so want to visit America, especially the south.
Sally x
What amazing photos you’ve captured, I love that bench( I do want to give it a lick of paint though,is that wrong?) it would fit in my garden so well xx
These photos are stunning! lovely as can be.
They are gorgeous and yes, they make me misses my home too although I don’t stay anywhere near there:)
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lovely images…
the south is beautiful country.
have a wonderful holiday!
Yes yes yes yes! His stuff is at LACMA right now I think, and I went to a talk about him, he’s awesome.
I love the 4th photo from the top. I really want to go into that little cabin.
If you like southern photography, William Christianberry has some rad pictures too. I heard that if you got to William Eggleston’s house and knock on his door he will hang out.
in the same line as Eggleston, you should probably also check out Stephen Shore, and i agree with the above in terms of Christianberry too
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How I wish there were places like this in Brazil…keep dreaming!
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