This is my fourth Steven Shore inspired photo i talked about in my previous post.

other photographers

These pictures I took with inspiration from Steven Shore. His photographs remind me of a story of a road trip. He takes a lot of pictures of cars, rest stops hotel feeling spaces and people. He reminds me of Eggleston in that his photographs are very personal, makes you wonder the story behind each photo. His photos are similar to Eggleston also in that they capture a loneliness feeling. On a road trip by yourself you have no one to talk to or be with and these photos I took remind me of a lonely hotel room.

This photo I took with inspiration from Alfred Steiglitz. Alfred takes a lot of black and white photos of people's surroundings, as well as people and body parts. He reminds me of Eggleston because Eggleston took a lot of photos of his surroundings down south.  My photo is of my backyard at night because Alfred's photos of the outdoors all seem very dark.

This photo is one I took with David Octavius Hill's paintings in mind. His paintings are all of the 1800th century. He paints a lot of people, some posed and others supposed to look in the moment which reminds me of Eggleston's photos in that when he captures people they aren't supposed to be posed but are. The photo i took is posed like some of Hill's paintings were.

^ these are the photos i got used for inspiration, the first photo is by Alfred Steiglitz, the second photo is by Steven Shore and the third is by David Octavius Hill

This photo exhibits work of Eggleston because he liked simplicity and also remnants of the south. I think music can be simple yet complex. Eggleston's photos exude simplicty yet we don't know the story behind them, meaning there is actually more depth to the photos. His work is much like music in that music is not simply lyrics and notes but they form a deeper meaning of something, much like Eggleston's guide to a possible deeper meaning of his life in a southern town.

Eggleston's Guide

Cara Cole
English and Photography
Eggleston’s Guide

1.      What does S write about Eggleston’s photos in specific?

a.      Pg 6 “…it seems that the pictures reproduced here are about the photographer’s home, about his place, in both important meanings of that word. On might say about his identity.”

b.      Pg. 10 “…that today’s most radical and suggestive color photography derives much of its vigor from commonplace models, this relationship is especially strong in the case of Eggleston’s work.”

c.      Pg. 11 “ In Eggleston’s work these characteristics are reversed, and we see uncompromisingly private experience described in a manner that is retrained, austere, and public, a style not inappropriate for photographers that might be introduced as evidence in court.”

d.      Pg. 11 “The simplicity of these pictures is (as the reader will have guessed) not so simple.”

e.      Pg. 11 “The pictures were based compositionally on the confederate flag.”

f.      Pg. 12 “One can say then that in these photographs form and content are indistinguishable which is to say that the pictures mean precisely what they appear to mean.”

2.      Photographers named :

Degas                                         Eliot Porter
James Agee                                Helen Levitt
Robert Adams                            Jane Austen
Alfred Stieglitz                          Steven Shore
Eugene Atget                            Joel Meyerowitz                      
David Octavius Hill                  Brady

3.      Terms

Pg 5: Nominal-of, pertaining to, or constituting a name or names.
Pg. 6: Anarchic-not regulated by law; lawless
        Pg. 7: Inextricably-hopelessly intricate, involved, or perplexing: inextricable confusion.
        Pg. 8: Ephemeral-lasting for only a short time; transitory; short-lived
        Pg. 9: Aesthetic-a philosophical theory or idea of what is aesthetically valid at a given time and place: the clean lines, bare surfaces, and sense of space that bespeak the machine-age aesthetic.
        Pg. 10: Vernacular-any medium or mode of expression that reflects popular taste or indigenous styles.
        Pg.11: Romanticism- ( often capital ) the theory, practice, and style of the romantic art, music, and literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, usually opposed to classicism
        Pg. 12: Monochrome-a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color
        Pg. 13: Opalescent-having a milky iridescence.
        Pg. 14: Paradigm-a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme.