tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239708807810036466.post3696240723770850081..comments2023-11-05T09:41:40.326+00:00Comments on The Interior Prospect: Stephen Tierneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11462632491775954605noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239708807810036466.post-72831347705224445032010-04-17T18:00:29.182+01:002010-04-17T18:00:29.182+01:00It's the coloursIt's the coloursAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239708807810036466.post-39871183530155979422010-03-12T15:01:15.089+00:002010-03-12T15:01:15.089+00:00First I loved Elvis, then I loved Eggleston. I lov...First I loved Elvis, then I loved Eggleston. I love them both now, even though Graceland is where they both went to die.<br /><br />That's a bit unfair.<br /><br />There was also a six year period in the 80s when I was quite fond of Whitesnake...<br /><br />Nevermind.<br /><br />One of the key components of genius is efortlessness...seeming efforlessness...is that even a word? <br />Composure...that is a word...easiness, poise, informality...I didn't know it, I looked it up...constructed it...<br /><br />Elvis and Eggleston, music and photography down south, they made it seem effortless, supercharged...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOzaVpgeHJg<br /><br />http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/files/2009/12/peaches-1024x684.jpg<br /><br />I'm no genius, I'm a bully...there, I said it...when I want to make something I tend to bludgeon it into being like a neanderthal trying to hack a boulder into wheel. And for what?<br /><br />Graceland is an institution, and it did for Elvis and Eggleston just like that Oregon Asylum did for Randal P McMurphy. There's nothing vital about Elvis in Graceland, and there's nothing like the grain of the present in Eggleston's painfully composed photography of Graceland-as-mausolem.<br /><br />Except for maybe that shot of the gate, the exterior--looking out--<br /><br />http://www.sfmoma.org/images/artwork/medium/85.648.11_01_b02.jpg<br /><br />As for all the rest it's nauseating quite frankly, nothing like the crisp clarity, the charge, the revolutionary spirit of these artists in their prime...<br /><br />more like this guy...<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9FRB0WuGU<br /><br />That's me right there, that's a human being. Not the genius who conjures something out of nothing...<br /><br />http://arttattler.com/Images/NorthAmerica/NewYork/Whitney/William%20Eggleston/03.-eggleston_untitled1965cart.jpg<br /><br />Eggleston's Graceland is like Eggleston's Paris (and Eggleston's drawings)...arranged, corralled, constructed. A visual jargon. <br /><br />What is the antithesis of 'sublime'?<br />I looked it up, it's 'hideous'!<br /><br />Institutions are a form of interior against which even genius contends in vain. And boy, were those two good at interiors...<br /><br />http://bluetowerarts.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/william-eggleston18.jpg<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzV_0l5ILI<br /><br />Here are some more sublime Eggleston interiors...<br /><br />http://graememitchell.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/eggleston_2_girls_on_couch.jpg<br /><br />http://pagesonline.it/pagesblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/WILLIAM-EGGLESTON.jpg<br /><br />http://zeropointperspective.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/eggleston.jpg<br /><br />http://rubistudios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/eggleston_untitledplane.jpg<br /><br />http://www.masters-of-photography.com/images/full/eggleston/eggleston_shoes_under_bed.jpg<br /><br />http://glittersoup.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/eggleston_freezer.jpg<br /><br />http://accessibleartny.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/hot_sauce.jpg<br /><br />http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/images/eggleston-sea-island.png<br /><br />http://www.brianrose.com/journal/eggleston_oven.jpg<br /><br />How can I train myself to see shots like that ?!?!? that's the real question!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10043340127004486390noreply@blogger.com