Excellent documentary about US photographer William Eggleston on BBC1’s Imagine, last night (14 July). When he first started taking photographs he was discouraged by his surroundings which he described to a friend as ‘shit’. ‘Then take photographs of the shit,’ his friend responded … I like that – location isn’t important, beauty isn’t important – it’s what you observe, what you hear, it’s in the details you include – and in what you leave out, it’s there in the banal […]

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