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...looking for america, there's no need to buy a Greyhound bus ticket - just drop in at London's Hayward Gallery before mid-September. Photographers Ansel Adams and William Eggleston reveal the country's awe-inspiring natural phenomena, as well as the lurid traces of human occupation...
...contrast to Adams' pure black-and-white vision of untouched nature, William Eggleston's pictures throw a colorful light on the incidentals of human life in the American South. When he goes to a desert, as he did in 2000, he doesn't lift up his eyes to the hills but takes in a grave, a rusty sign, a passing freight train, an abandoned suitcase lying open on the ground. And instead of composing his images formally he seems to snap at random, cutting off people's heads or tilting the horizon. Sometimes he doesn't even look through...
...Eggleston still lives in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was born in 1939, and has been taking pictures since 1957. In the 1970s he went into color in a big way, using the dye transfer process that allowed him to tinker with hues. Fortunately for him it was a time when people surrounded themselves with bright colors and lurid patterns. You may need dark glasses to view a Californian field photographed in 1978 (only a few of Eggleston's images have titles), in which mauve lupins are almost lost against a background of chrome yellow flowers under a cerulean...
...more subtle symphony in ochre and umber is created by the window of Brown's Custom Shop in Kingsport, Tennessee, photographed in 1985. The wall is brown, the rolls of linoleum on display are lime, orange and teak. But Eggleston's aesthetic also has a puritan streak that goes beyond the garish and distressed to encompass blank white walls and dry grasses...
...Officers responded to Memorial Hall after a guard reported a suspicious person playing pool. When approached, John Eggleston of Boston caused a disturbance and was arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing...