William Eggleston

William Eggleston is one of the most renowned Photographers in the world, he changed the course of colour photography by taking the intense and super-real quality of colour transparencies and turning it into the saturated hues of dye transfer prints. In the 70's/80's Eggleston started to focus more on photographing the realities of his own landscape in the South of America; the series I have chosen to look at for this research is his project called 'Southern Suite'.

In this particular series he wanted to explore ordinary scenes and places where he could photograph 'the uncommonness of the commonplace', by using this as his rule for the series he wanted to capture the most basic and the most generic of landscapes but he wanted them to have a disturbance of something that you wouldn't normally come across within that space. This ties in with my project quite nicely with the way that he photographs the many manmade interruptions within the natural landscapes.

Information can be found at: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93824/untitled-for-the-portfolio-southern-photograph-eggleston-william/
Images can be found at: http://www.egglestontrust.com