Exhibition dates: 4th April – 21st June, 2009
Perhaps it’s just me but I seem to have become a little jaded towards the recent photographs of William Eggleston. Although there are not many photographs of the exhibition online there are a few at the Fondation Cartier website under the ‘Catalogue’ section of the exhibition and they are quite mundane.
Other than the green reflection of lights in rainwater the photographs seem to have lost their unique voice, the insight that gave his earlier work it’s zing – provocative images that challenged through meditation on subject matter, construction of space and tone of colour. In these photographs it feels like there has been little development in his style over the years with a consequent lessening of their visual impact. Perhaps the way we look at the world and how we picture it has finally overtaken the director’s prescient creative vision – his auteurship, his authorship.
William Eggleston
‘Untitled’, Paris series
2006-2008
William Eggleston
‘Untitled’, Paris series
2006-2008
“For the last three years, American photographer William Eggleston has photographed the city of Paris as part of a commission for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Taken throughout different seasons, these new images by one of the fathers of color photography portray the local and the cosmopolitan, the glamorous and the gritty, the everyday and the extraordinary.
This exhibition also provides an exceptional occasion to bring together William Eggleston’s distinctive pictures and his recent paintings, an unknown aspect of his work that has never before been presented to the public.”
Text from the Fondation Cartier website
William Eggleston
‘Untitled‘, Paris series
2006-2008
William Eggleston
‘Untitled’, Paris series
2006-2008
William Eggleston
‘Untitled’, Paris series
2006-2008
William Eggleston
‘Untitled’, Paris series
2006-2008
Fondation Cartier
261 Boulevard Raspail, Paris
Opening hours: Every day except Mondays, 11 – 8pm
Opening Tuesday evenings until 10pm
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