I agree, Larry. After all the buildup, the Eggleston show was a letdown. OTOH, the PDML gallery show was wonderful.
Rick > On Mar 27, 2020, at 1:32 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Mar 27, 2020, at 7:15 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> IN LIVING COLOR >> The Colorful Photographs Of Everyday Life That Shocked The Art World And >> Changed Photography Forever >> <https://digg.cmail20.com/t/t-l-nkjitht-qidddldht-z/> >> artsy.net <https://digg.cmail20.com/t/t-l-nkjitht-qidddldht-v/> >> Self-taught photographer William Eggleston's vivid images of mundane scenes >> arrived at MoMA at a time when the only photographs considered to be art >> were in black and white. >> <https://digg.cmail20.com/t/t-l-nkjitht-qidddldht-e/> >> >> https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-william-egglestons-colorful-photographs-everyday-shocked-art > > Thanks for the link Dan. I guess that since I never followed, or was > particularly interested in, fine art, his position as a trend setter and his > historical significance escaped me. > > I don’t know If I had ever even heard of him before we went to the Egglestone > exhibit during the PDML show in Chicago. I do remember that my impression of > that show was that I thought that the photos exhibited in our show were, in > general, better than what I saw in his exhibit. > > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
