Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15
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William Eggleston, in an interview quoted in his book, "THE DEMOCRATIC
FOREST," said the following:
"Even after the lessons of Winogrand and Friedlander, they don't get
it. They respect their work because they are told by
respectable institutions that they are important artists, but what
they really want to see is a picture with a figure or an object in the
middle of it. They want something obvious. The blindness is apparent
when someone lets slip the work 'snapshot.' Ignorance can
always be covered by 'snapshot.' The word has never had any meaning.
I am at war with the obvious."
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