RE: [Leica] Re Eggleston and colour

[Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>]

It seems that Eggleston was fascinated by the colour obtainable in
reproduction, whatever method, and often found disappointment in the actual
photograph itself.
His love of Cartier-Bresson's 'The Decisive Moment' was through the
exquisite deep lustrous gravure printing, when he saw the photographs
themselves, they became ordinary.
Similarly, his exposure to, and use of, C-type printing processes enabled
him to find his metier in a world where previously colour photography had
been largely dismissed by the serious art/photgraphy establishment.
In his seminal picture, 'Red Ceiling' (1973) which was included in the 1985
exhibition 'American Images, Photography - 1945-80' (which I recall seeing
in Plymouth Arts Centre) he describes the sense of the colour being almost
like liquid blood, the saturation of the colour has to be seen to be
believed. 
I suspect that although the presentation of his pictures over the web is, in
practise, extremely variable, he would be intrigued with the potential
possibilities for using a colour system allowing additive, rather than,
subtractive colours.

Jem

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> From: 	timswan[SMTP:timswan@blazenetme.net]
> 
> B.D.,
> Eggleston's dye transfer prints are incredible. Some of his work looks 
> like it was done with large format cameras -- a good advertisement for 
> Leica's, his preferred cameras.
> 
> Tim
> 
> >God help me - THIS one I kind of like...The color's interesting, the
> >composition is interesting. And there is something eerily fascinating
> about
> >the scene...as opposed to that ridiculous Tenn. hwy shot....
> >
> >One problem with this, of course, is that judging a color photo - where
> >color is important- from it's appearance on the web is pretty
> ridiculous...
>