{"id":9811,"date":"2012-02-06T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T20:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T22:32:04","slug":"william-eggleston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2012\/02\/06\/william-eggleston\/","title":{"rendered":"~WILLIAM EGGLESTON . . . also in the news, & ALAN LOMAX . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

photographer WILLIAM EGGLESTON, b. July 27, 1939<\/a> – also has work in the ‘Spectacular of the Vernacular’<\/a> exhibit currently up thru March 18, 2012 – at the ACKLAND ART MUSEUM in NORTH CAROLINA.<\/p>\n

if you checked out that article in the INDY WEEK.COM<\/a> you would have noticed his photograph of a vintage black car photographed from behind and covered by vines – which headlines their review.<\/p>\n

but it’s his color portraits of people, in the vernacular !! that really rock the boat. <\/p>\n

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\n1970 COLOR PHOTO PORTRAIT by WILLIAM EGGLESTON.
\nPHOTO CREDIT: EGGLESTON ARTISTIC TRUST, CHRISTIE’S IMAGES LTD, 2012\/image courtesy: THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/a><\/p>\n

for example this one !! knock-out or what. talking bout realism, archiving Americana, and just plain ole spectacular vernacular … as the Ackland Museum – so rightly calls it !!
\nand, yet another old school-er . . . right on point.
\ndown to that name-plate golden ankle – ‘bracelet’ dangling just so – above her left foot !! now we’re talking . . . about the (truly) vernacular.<\/p>\n

this image made news last week in an article by CAROL VOGEL. apparently Mr. EGGLESTON, is working with Christie’s to bring several of his most famous images to a newer and bigger market, literally.<\/p>\n

“In a rare departure Mr. Eggleston, 72, has blown up this image, [a signature photo of a vintage peaches sign] along with 35 others, from their original 16-by-20 inch sheets to a new, oversize 44-by-60 inch format.”<\/p>\n

the article goes on to state that “computer technology” did not exist (obviously) “when he took these pictures in and around the Mississippi Delta where he lived.”
\nfurther . . . “back then color photography was considered cheesy. That was in the 1970s and 80s, when Mr. Eggleston took shots of anything and everything that struck his fancy.” <\/p>\n

“On March 12 (2012) Christie’s will be selling 36 of these works in this new oversize format . . . the sale is expected to total more than $2.7 million, with estimates ranging from $30,000 to $300,000.”<\/p>\n

“In recent years Mr. Eggleston’s popularity has soared. In 208, when the Whitney Museum of American Art held “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008′, the show drew about 120,000 visitors, making it one of the most highly attended photography exhibits in the museum’s history.”<\/p>\n

“I tried to go there one day after it opened,” Mr. Eggleston said, seeming surprised that people actually went to the show. “And it was so crowded even I couldn’t get in.” (!!)<\/p>\n

read the whole article: ‘Eggleston Writ Large’ – Inside Art by CAROL VOGEL, New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n‘ADYN and JASPER’ – COLOR PHOTOGRAPH by WILLIAM EGGLESTON, image courtesy: WILLIAM EGGLESTON OFFICIAL WEBSITE<\/a><\/p>\n

you can see more of his work: the EGGLESTON TRUST – WEBSITE !!<\/a><\/p>\n

and . . . . regarding the VERNACULAR !!<\/strong><\/p>\n

the term is also in much play, currently – in the music<\/strong> world, as well. <\/p>\n

case in point: an article on the legendary archivist ALAN LOMAX, (July 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002)<\/a>, titled ‘FOLKLORIST’S GLOBAL JUKEBOX GOES DIGITAL’, written by LARRY ROHTER, which just came out in NEW YORK TIMES, JAN 31, 2012.<\/p>\n

the key sentence: <\/p>\n

starting in the mid-30s, “At a time when there was a strict divide between high and low in American culture, and Afro-American<\/strong> and hillbilly<\/strong> music were scorned, Lomax argued that such vernacular <\/strong> styles were America’s greatest contribution to music.”<\/p>\n

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\nphoto ALAN LOMAX took in a church in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1960. PHOTO CREDIT: ALLAN LOMAX\/ASSOCIATION for CULTURAL EQUITY. image courtesy: NEW YORK TIMES<\/a>
\nsubtitle: ‘THE COLLECTION of the FOLKLORIST and ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST ALAN LOMAX is BEING DIGITIZED for DISSEMINATION.’<\/p>\n

also, interestingly for New Yorkers:<\/strong> The Association for Cultural Equity, which is overseeing the project is headquartered at Hunter College<\/strong> in Manhattan, where it is headed by Lomax’s daughter ANNA LOMAX WOOD. <\/p>\n

read the whole article: ALAN LOMAX: FOLKLORIST’S GLOBAL JUKEBOX GOES DIGITAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photographer WILLIAM EGGLESTON, b. July 27, 1939 – also has work in the ‘Spectacular of the Vernacular’ exhibit currently up thru March 18, 2012 – at the ACKLAND ART MUSEUM in NORTH CAROLINA. if you checked out that article in the INDY WEEK.COM you would have noticed his photograph of a vintage black car photographed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9843,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions\/9843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}