William eggleston: photographer

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  • 0880198091093
Subject(s): Summary: This film documents how Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black and white photographs made at the beginning of Eggleston's career. Here the influence of Henri Cartier Bresson's "decisive moment" is still evident. Yet Eggleston went his own artistic way early on. Elements of his later work in color can already be discerned in the composition of the black-and-white photographs
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This film documents how Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black and white photographs made at the beginning of Eggleston's career. Here the influence of Henri Cartier Bresson's "decisive moment" is still evident. Yet Eggleston went his own artistic way early on. Elements of his later work in color can already be discerned in the composition of the black-and-white photographs

This film documents how Eggleston came to develop his technique of art photography. It shows the first black and white photographs made at the beginning of Eggleston's career. Here the influence of Henri Cartier Bresson's "decisive moment" is still evident. Yet Eggleston went his own artistic way early on. Elements of his later work in color can already be discerned in the composition of the black-and-white photographs