William Eggleston

William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi.

Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's, First photographing in black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with color in 1965 and 1966. color transparency film became his dominant medium in the later sixties. “The dye-transfer process resulted in some of Eggleston's most striking and famous work, such as his 1973 photograph entitled The Red Ceiling, of which Eggleston said, "The Red Ceiling is so powerful, that in fact I've never seen it reproduced on the page to my satisfaction. When you look at the dye it is like red blood that's wet on the wall.... A little red is usually enough, but to work with an entire red surface was a challenge."

In this the red ceiling I love the way the image is been taken and how the red color makes it powerful as Eggleston says to work with entire red surface was a challenge .Eggleston photography in this image is one of contemporary art photography its strong and powerful as the way he thought to take the ceiling on that time .

Reference

http://www.egglestontrust.com/

http://www.farewellkodachrome.com/?p=98

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/E/eggleston/eggleston.html