Photographers artist biography
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Artist Biography
Glenn Randall
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Summary of William Eggleston
Since the early 1960s, William Eggleston used color photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He registers these changes in scenes of everyday life, such as portraits of family and friends, as well as gasoline stations, cars, and shop interiors. Switching from black and white to color, his response to the vibrancy of postwar consumer culture and America's bright promise of a better life paralleled Pop Art's fascination with consumerism. Eggleston's images speak to new cultural phenomena as they relate to photography: from the Polaroid's instantaneous images, the way things slip in and out of view in the camera lens, and our constantly shifting attention. Eggleston captures how ephemeral things represent human presence in the world, while playing with the idea of experience and memory and our perceptions of things to make them feel personal and intimate.
Accomplishments
- The snapshot, or anecdotal, aesthetic provided Eggleston with the appropriate format for creating pictures about everyday life. Although his compositions were carefully considered, their association with family photographs, amateur photography, as well as Kodak's Brownie camera (which was useable by everyone) lent his work the proper
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Lou Jones' eclectic career has evolved from commercial to the personal. It has spanned every format, film type, artistic movement and technological change. He maintains a studio in Boston, Massachusetts and has photographed for Fortune 500 corporations, international companies and local small businesses including Federal Express, Nike and the Barr Foundation; completed assignments for magazines and publishers all over the world such as Time/Life, National Geographic and Paris Match; initiated long term projects on the civilwars in Central America, death row, Olympics Games and pregnancy; and published multiple books.
Final Exposure: Portraits from Death Row - Northeastern University Press, Boston, Massachusetts. 1996
Travel and Photography: Off the Charts Focal - Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA/Oxford, UK. 2006
Exiled Voices - Portals of Discovery New England College Press, Henniker, New Hampshire. 2008.
Speedlights and Speedlites: Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed - Focal Press/Elsevier, Burlington, MA/Oxford, UK. 2009
Awards & Accomplishments
Nikon "Legends Behind the Lens"
Lowepro “Champion”
Travel Photographer of the Year 2009 - Finalist
Ehrmann Award from the Massachusetts Citizens against the Death Penalty
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