[Leica] Eggleston article

[timswan <timswan@blazenetme.net>]

For anyone interested in learing more about William Eggleston: 
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/09/07/eggleston/index.html

A quote:

"He took pictures for a hobby, so I had his Contax and Leica IIIA at 
home," Eggleston says.

and, one more:

The banal, then, is still banal, but now it's engrossing. I suppose this 
must be seen as progress, but Eggleston's belief has been and remains 
that what the resolutely high-minded call banality is the stuff of life 
itself. It is where we live -- but not only there. Much has been made of 
Eggleston's oft-quoted statement "I am at war with the obvious." Here he 
is, not atypically, saying a good deal less than he means. Eggleston 
loves the obvious -- he hates, and is indeed at war with, the idea of it, 
the contempt in which it is held. He sees what's in the gutter but also 
looks up to the heavens. As Malcolm Jones, an unusually perceptive critic 
of Eggleston's work, has observed, "He addresses the meanest objects with 
unstuttering love."