Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Great black and white photographers, PART 2.

This is William Eggleston.
He was born july 27th, 1939
He was born in Memphis
He was a great photographer
He was a teacher at harvard
He discovered dye-transfer printing
He went to school at Vanderbilt University
The earliest commercial use of Egglestons art was on album covers for the Memphis group Big Star
Eggleston is in a print ad for Marc jacobs clothing
Eggleston is in the movie Great balls of fire as jerry lee lewis's dad.
In year 2001,  Egglestons picture "Memphis (1968)" was used for the cover of Jimmy Eat World's  album "Bleed American".
Walter Hopps was astounded by egglestons work. 

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