RE: [Leica] Re Eggleston and colour

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

Rob,
yes, indeed, that is the picture, and apologies for getting my colour repro.
terminologies mixed up. Although Eggleston used C-types later on in his
carreer, it was his infatuation with dye-transfer prints at this stage (the
mid 70's) that got him going on the extreme colour saturation thing.

regards,
Jem

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> From: 	Rob Schneider-Laura Tully[SMTP:robslaurat@earthlink.net]
> 
> Jem Kime wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Is "Red Ceiling" the one with the bare lightbulb and the criss-crossed,
> exposed wiring?  FWIW, that photo was used as the cover art for the first
> album by "Big Star," a mid-70's band fronted by former Box Top and
> all-around pop oddball Alex Chilton.  Big Star was considered quirky and
> inaccessible, though they are now regarded as influential to many bands.
> The original Big Star LP's, on Ardent Records out of Memphis, are long out
> of print and rather collectible.  The band's music has been rereleased on
> CD.
> 
> Since "Red Ceiling" was probably taken with a Leica, this is somehow,
> barely, on topic.  Same would be true, I guess, for Robert Frank and
> "Exile
> on Main Street."
> 
> Rob Schneider
> 
> 
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