As I visited
the Tate Modern today the ‘Energy and Process’ exhibition caught my eye as I enjoyed looking at the work of Annette Messager (The Pikes) and Lynda Bengali (Quartered Meteor), however
the work of American photographer William Eggleston within the exhibition was
what appealed to me the most.
Eggleston’s exhibition this year, which was curated by Simon Baker and Shoair Mavlin, feature rich, colourful and complex photographs that he shot in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee during 1969-74 as well as during 1976’s presidential election unlike his previous “Untitled” collection exhibition photographs that ranged between 1965 to 2001, which were also photographed in different parts of the world (many being within the United States) such as Mississippi, Louisiana as well as Berlin.
The photographs are so vibrant and detailed that if the audience were to stand and properly look at the images they start to feel as though they are familiar with the settings of the photographs and that they themselves are a part of the photograph, this therefore is the effect of the amount of detail within them. However this feeling of “familiarity” is felt a lot more when the audience go around the exhibition room and look at all the photographs one by one, this is probably why the curators of the exhibition placed the photographs in a certain way and order as the calmer photographs were all placed together and they slowly made way into the more complex and lively photographs. Therefore the audience’s experience of the exhibition depended on which way they decided to follow the series of photographs, whether it be from the left to right, which was the more complex images into the calmer photographs, or from the right to the left, which was the calmer photographs into the more complex photographs.
I was inspired by the amount of detail that Eggleston includes into his photographs, this therefore has interested me in paying attention to the details of the settings that I may use in my future projects. I also like the fact that he simply photographs ‘life today’ (Tate, 2013).
No Author (2002). William Eggleston. United Kingdom. Thames & Hudson Ltd. Accessed on: 10th September 2013.
No Author (2013). William Eggleston [online]. London, Tate Modern. Accessed on 11th September 2013. Available at: <http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/display/william-eggleston>
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