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Eggleston's maternal grandfather, a judge in Sumner, Miss., owned a sizable cotton plantation. After Eggleston's father shipped off to the Pacific in World War II, the boy and his mother shuttled for years between Florida and his grandparents' places in Mississippi. Eggleston preferred their house in town to the plantation. "Life in the country was sort of remote," he says. "It was lonely. There was nothing in every direction but cotton fields...
Because he suffered from asthma as a boy, Eggleston was mostly an indoor child, absorbed by the piano, cameras and sound equipment. Later he attended a few colleges, including Vanderbilt and the University of Mississippi, without managing to graduate from any. But at Ole Miss, where he studied painting, he started to wonder seriously about photography. And by the early '70s, he had come upon dye-transfer printing, a method that produces deeply saturated color. This is why, when he makes a picture of a rooftop sign that reads PEACHES!, the orange letters just about sear your retina...
...opposite," he says. "The idea of a soul to me is ridiculous." But there's a kind of spirituality in his pictures, an assent to things as they are and a conviction that the whole of creation is worth your careful attention. Look at his picture of a grocery boy pushing a rack of carts, or a hand stirring a drink on a flight, and you can't help realizing that, even in its most incidental corners, it's a bright, beckoning world out there. And that there's nothing boring about...
...Furman was appointed to head the first atomic-intelligence effort and was soon able to report that the Germans had not gotten very far in building a bomb. Two years later, he accompanied Little Boy's uranium core from Los Alamos, N.M., to Tinian Island and watched the Enola Gay take off on Aug. 6, 1945, with its historic payload...
...everything we’ve contributed to our season,” Gillespie added. “It’s fun to get out there and race.”The Crimson will round out the weekend with the Manhattan Club Bad Boy Invitational on Saturday, also at Van Cortlandt Park...