Author Topic: For Eggleston fans... (Read 6445 times)

choppert · « **on:** May 30, 2010, 10:22:07 PM »

...this is bloody brilliant!

http://www.nigelshafran.com

The Crispboxes portfolio is stunning.

Mrs Chops thinks I've finally gone mad "I could have taken those!"

Chops

Andrea. · « **Reply #1 on:** May 30, 2010, 11:21:34 PM »

Reminds me of http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/fmb_shop.shtml

calbisu · « **Reply #2 on:** May 30, 2010, 11:45:13 PM »

liked it a lot, quotidianity has never looked better! Thanks for sharing Choppert. And eggleston is GREAT!!!

original_ann · « **Reply #3 on:** May 31, 2010, 03:40:47 AM »

LOVE Eggleston! He inspired me to document the inside of my pantry, frig and freezer for posterity!

Francois · « **Reply #4 on:** May 31, 2010, 02:58:39 PM »

Quote from: original_ann on May 31, 2010, 03:40:47 AM

LOVE Eggleston! He inspired me to document the inside of my pantry, frig and freezer for posterity!

He also inspired me not to. Mine are way too messy to ever be considered photogenic.

original_ann · « **Reply #5 on:** May 31, 2010, 06:11:50 PM »

Francois - Give it a go despite not 'seeing' the art. Today they look like clutter. In even 10 years time, they look like fascinating nostalgia because products, packaging and fonts change.

calbisu · « **Reply #6 on:** May 31, 2010, 06:31:34 PM »

Ann, that?s quite true

db · « **Reply #7 on:** June 01, 2010, 12:53:37 AM »

What's this say about the personality of photographers, that we have to turn every gdamn thing in this world into a typology??

Now, I don't mean to do an emperors new clothes here (because I did just spend a few minutes thinking how a grid of the compost series would look on my wall) but sometimes it does seem that if you photograph a piece of crap once, it's a photo of a piece of crap, but if you photograph a piece of crap 20 times, it's conceptual art.

Francois · « **Reply #8 on:** June 01, 2010, 04:44:23 PM »

I did notice that... and if you make enough to do an entire wall... then you're really it.

I remember seeing years ago at the Musee d'art Contemporain de Montreal a huge wall filled with 4x6 prints held by pins. The guy had shot lettering on signs and such so that he could order them from AA-AB-AC all the way to ZZ. Only 2 letters by print and what was probably one heck of a job to shoot all 676 photos.

Taken alone, the photos were pretty ordinary. Straight frontal shots of lettering. But as a whole, it took on a whole other dimension.

LT · « **Reply #9 on:** June 01, 2010, 05:18:24 PM »

Quote from: db on June 01, 2010, 12:53:37 AM

What's this say about the personality of photographers, that we have to turn every gdamn thing in this world into a typology??

Now, I don't mean to do an emperors new clothes here (because I did just spend a few minutes thinking how a grid of the compost series would look on my wall) but sometimes it does seem that if you photograph a piece of crap once, it's a photo of a piece of crap, but if you photograph a piece of crap 20 times, it's conceptual art.

got to agree with Don's sagely opinion here. But then again, I've never been a fan of the Eggleston vernacular style.

LT · « **Reply #10 on:** June 01, 2010, 05:20:47 PM »

but I love the Becher style though. Flat, Grey and Dull. just like me.

calbisu · « **Reply #11 on:** June 01, 2010, 06:42:25 PM »

One shot is just an image, a lot (with a certain common element between images) makes a project, an idea; the identity of the different singular images is engulfed by the grup?s identity. Sounds kinda of Maoist...

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #12 on:** June 01, 2010, 06:59:18 PM »

I'm with you, Leon, a huge fan of the Bechers

choppert · « **Reply #13 on:** June 01, 2010, 07:01:00 PM »

I really quite like consistent crap, as opposed to impromptu crap which I specialise in

And a forty year body of crappy work has to be applauded.

One man's Eggleston is another Faye Godwin, or as my grandfather used to say "one man's meat is another man's mustard"

To each their own

Phil Bebbington · « **Reply #14 on:** June 01, 2010, 07:09:05 PM »

Thankfully I like meat and mustard at the same time. $:-\$ Go figure!

Nigel · « **Reply #15 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:29:40 PM »

I'm slightly embarrassed to say I really like them. 'Dad's office' is probably my favourite. There is something about photographing the banality of everyday life.

I heard Martin Parr speak recently and he said something that really struck home, the gist of which was 'if you go out and take photographs of the things most people do, such as National monuments etc they will look basically the same in 20 years time. Whereas if you go to your local supermarket in 20 years it'll be completely different'. Not profound but true.

choppert · « **Reply #16 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:45:12 PM »

I'm not sure I'm embarrassed.

They are technically spot on, consistently themes, have a certain signature and are at least vaguely interesting. Isn't that what we are all doing at the FW website?

Ok, they aren't going to change people's thinking like Don McCullen but they do bring a smile to my face, and that can be just as important. We aren't on earth that ling after all.

Nigel · « **Reply #17 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:48:42 PM »

Chops don't get me wrong, I was just joking I think think they're great. Hence the point about Martin Parr. My attempt at irony didn't quite work.

choppert · « **Reply #18 on:** June 01, 2010, 08:51:42 PM »

And my irony detection skills have been known to fail me at great frequency

And one of my all time favourites is a fairly banal photo of a shower head in Hawaii. Mr E would have been proud!

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #19 on:** June 01, 2010, 09:41:30 PM »

Quote from: choppert on June 01, 2010, 08:51:42 PM

And my irony detection skills have been known to fail me at great frequency

And one of my all time favourites is a fairly banal photo of a shower head in Hawaii. Mr E would have been proud!

Chops....about that shower head photo. I did actually dig out the high res scan of it last month in preparation to send off to the printers for that enlargement you want, but it turns out that 'high res' it is not - in fact anything but - and I'll need to re-scan the neg properly unless you're happy with a 2" print? Yeah, sorry about that! I like the photo well enough myself and would be happy to get one done for Wenn Mansions when I do yours so I have some level of motivation on that score, but finding the original neg is where it all falls down a little. I took hundreds of photos in Hawaii on that trip and it's going to take a while to go through them to find the elusive shower head. But hey, you've waited 6 months, what harm will another 18 do you?

Now, let's talk about the use of the word 'banal' in relation to my photographic oeuvre!!!!

choppert · « **Reply #20 on:** June 01, 2010, 09:45:38 PM »

Did I say banal, clearly I meant deep, meaningful and misplaced.

Now, about that neg.....

Nigel · « **Reply #21 on:** June 01, 2010, 10:36:05 PM »

Ed - I think the much discussed shower head deserves a re-showing!

Francois · « **Reply #22 on:** June 01, 2010, 11:23:15 PM »

Did it at least have some caked-on hard water stains on it?

db · « **Reply #23 on:** June 02, 2010, 12:30:46 AM »

SHOWERHEADS

Do you feel that spine shiver of a new collaboration theme emerging here??

LT · « **Reply #24 on:** June 02, 2010, 06:10:18 AM »

Or maybe Banality? Provided it's not of the Hannah Arendt type, we should be in for a interesting gallery.

Ed Wenn · « **Reply #25 on:** June 02, 2010, 09:59:23 PM »

Quote from: Nigel on June 01, 2010, 10:36:05 PM

Ed - I think the much discussed shower head deserves a re-showing!

Nigel, it's this one here http://www.filmwasters.com/portfolios/v/ed/sharp/Bathroom+04.jpg.html

Miles · « **Reply #26 on:** June 02, 2010, 10:02:51 PM »

Oooooo liking the shower, got that Stephen Shore "Uncommon Places" feel of solitude.

Ken B: eyes, I just do eyes. · « **Reply #27 on:** June 08, 2010, 01:31:18 PM »

Interesting collection of images, interesting in a way that I am interested to see what all the fuss is about but sadly, as usual, I have missed something in the translation, it has sort of left me numb.

Duesche Borg has the same effect on me and you can win ?30,000.00 for that collection of garbage

Francois · « **Reply #28 on:** June 08, 2010, 04:51:10 PM »

There's also these French photographers (Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron) who went through the big Hollywood stars' garbage bins and took photos of the contents...

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/10/07/1097089474917.html
http://www.hotels-paris-rive-gauche.com/blog/2007/03/20/bruno-mouron-and-pascal-rostain-trash-exhibition-at-the-mep-in-paris-till-3-june-2007/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubykhan/450156131/
http://www.mdf.ru/english/exhibitions/moscow/2007/trash_ms05/