by Doug Harvey
This is the piece the WEEKLY didn't want - thought I should get it out there before the exhibit closes this weekend:
The Egg Shall Rise Again!
William Eggleston and resurgence of the here-and-now
It’s hard to imagine, but William Eggleston’s art was considered quite revolutionary in its time. Of course that probably says more about the times – the 1970’s – and his chosen medium – photography – than it does about William Eggleston – or “Egg” as his good friends call him. In many ways, photography was the seed of much of the tumult that encompassed the world in the 60s – certainly it’s emergence in the mid-19th century sent representational painting into a tailspin from which it can never hope to recover.
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