William eggleston what kind of camera

While Eggleston had a discriminating eye, he was also sure to keep shooting day after day to ensure he never went rusty. But, over time, audiences and critics began to see the value of his images. Eggleston believed in what he was doing and that meant that after a while the world began to catch up with him. As a result, he is now seen as perhaps one of the most influential photographers to have ever lived.

At every stage of his career, Eggleston shot only for himself. His images existed to please only him. Photocrowd is a contest platform for the best photo contests and photo awards around, with a global community of photographers of all levels and interests.

Photocrowd Posted on January 25, Share this post Share on Facebook Tweet Mail it. Enter popular contests on Photocrowd. Just One Object. Made of Metal. Black and White Portraits. Flowers in Colour. So when I stumbled upon this little piece in the Wall Street Journal I felt a little better about my guilty obsession with the tools I use to create. Turns out Mr. From classic chrome bodies to rare, custom-painted Leicas in blue, green and gray.

When you have such a collection, no ordinary container should cart the cameras around. You can see in the picture above, one of the three cases he customized and retrofitted along with a woodworking friend from a leather briefcase bought at a Memphis shop. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. For me Eggleston was a complete mystery for many years. In all, I love the images for their use of color and the careful composition and their call to study the contents of the frame.

As a note, I was surprised to learn that Eggleston takes one exposure of the scene he sees and moves on. THAT is confidence in the statement of is vision. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else.

I just remember being very happy during the dream [laughs]. Always in color. And therefore he is not relying particularly on the ultimate decorative thing like a nice sunset—or the incredible nostalgia that you will often see in contemporary practice. I would say he is kind of beyond that if you would like, he is almost photographing on the gap of everything else. The thing you look for other photographers work is a sense of vision—that you can recognize someones vision by looking at their photographs.

Now that may sound like a very easy thing to do, but in photography it is one of the hardest things to actually achieve. Because the vision is almost indescribable. It is more difficult to describe than most peoples vision, because it is about photographing democratically and photographing nothing and making it interesting—and that would seem to me to be the most difficult thing to achieve of all.

William Eggleston: Chromes. William Eggleston: Los Alamos Revisited. William Eggleston: Postcard Box. For Now. Not many photographers have a style as recognizably their own as William Eggleston does.

While his work might seem like simple snapshots at first, the more you look at his photos, the more complexity you see. So tell me what you all think about him in the comments below! Do you have any favorite shots?