Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston: An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

by Ben Child

Overview

Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. "When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston's palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; nearly all the major critics were scornful, and Ansel Adams wrote a scathing letter of protest."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807882443
Publisher:	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for the Study of the American South
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Ben Child is a PhD student in English at the University of Mississippi whose research interests include intersections between vernacular culture and modernism, and constructions of urbanity and rurality. His work has appeared in Popular Music and Society and The Journal of Popular Culture. He is also a frequent contributor to PopMatters.com.