"William Eggleston and the Color Tradition".Remember the shock (at least within the photo world) that greeted William Eggleston's 1976 MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. show? Not only were his pictures in color(!) - at that time scorned as either a commercial or an amateur medium - but his subject matter was willfully willfully adv. referring to doing something intentionally, purposefully and stubbornly. Examples: "He drove the car willfully into the crowd on the sidewalk." "She willfully left the dangerous substances on the property." (See: willful) mundane(!!). Revisiting Eggleston's work today, the Getty makes more than forty of his (recently donated) images the centerpiece of a survey featuring work by thirteen contemporary color photographers - from Joel Sternfeld Joel Sternfeld, (b. 1944, New York City), is a color photographer noted for his large-format documentary pictures of the United States. Sternfeld earned a BA from Dartmouth College and teaches photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. and Mitch Epstein Mitch Epstein was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1952 and currently lives in New York City with his wife and daughter. Mitch Epstein is a Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, for Spring 2008. to Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee - who carry on the old MoMA lineage. While it should be fascinating to see the work together, "color in photography" is too ubiquitous today to provide much conceptual focus for a show. Oct. 26, 1999-Jan. 30, 2000. |
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