“[The Democratic Forest] refers to my method of photographing–the idea that one could treat the Lincoln Memorial and an anonymous street corner with the same amount of care, and that the resulting two pictures would be equal, even though one place is a great monument and the other might be a place you’d like to forget.”
From an interview of William Eggleston by Charles Hagen
Also, selected items featuring Eggleston’s person notebook and the artist playing organ.
2 Comments
Fro
February 12, 2009 at 2:08 amYea the film looks good, and you definitely should visit Canada, it’s a lovely place.
Claire
February 25, 2009 at 4:19 pmhow did i not know if the existence of this blog until today!? these photos are really striking, you always seem to find and appreciate things that have a kind of colorful quiet? that makes no sense, but it’s the contradictions that are interesting, i can’t really explaiiiin…but i dig it! and i bookmarked your blog.