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.