Showing now at the Corcoran, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008 is a show you won’t want to miss. Eggleston’s career arguably defined color photography in the art world. From an excellent New Yorker article on his work and significance:
You can always tell a William Eggleston photograph. It’s the one in color that hits you in the face and leaves you confused and happy, and perhaps convinces you that you don’t understand photography nearly as well as you thought you did.
He shoots like a shutterbug and executes like a painter.
The show is a retrospective — the equivalent of a “greatest hits” album, so this show should appeal equally well to both newbs and l33ts alike. Eggleston titled the show Democratic Camera to reflect his “democratic” way of looking at things through the lense: all things equally interesting and significant. Unlike other artists who focus their work on capturing the bizarre, magnificent, or surreal, Eggleston aims to make the ordinary extraordinary.
The show is running from now until September 20th at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (map). Make sure to check out the Corc’s hours here before you plan a trip though, and note that it costs $10 for adults, $8 for students/senior/military.
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