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Subject: [Leica] Wm Eggleston on the Today Show
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 08:25:21 +0530
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Phil,
That portrait of his that you have taken is almost perfect!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:23 AM, Phil Swango <pswango at att.net> wrote:

> I've probably mentioned it here before, but Eggleston and I were close
> friends when I lived in Memphis in the sixties.  I was using his darkroom
> for a while and we hung out frequently at his place.  Here's a portrait I
> took of him in 1968:
> http://pswango.smugmug.com/popular/1/36522470_NTNLc#36522470_NTNLc
>
> Here's Eggleston's shot of me from around the same period:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/paswango/RecentUploads#5048114776621034594
>
> And here's one of both of us by a mutual friend:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/paswango/RecentUploads#5182522366510390402
>
> I was also able to attend the opening of his infamous MoMA show in 1976 and
> had a chance to meet Szarkowski there.  Actually, he walked over and
> introduced himself and we had a brief but pleasant chat.  I think he was
> curious about what kind of friends Bill had.
>
> Still, it doesn't bother me at all when people express their dislike for
> his
> work -- I love it, myself, but I can see why others may not.
>
>
> --
> Phil Swango
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>
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