Anyone been to the Eggleston retro at the Whitney?

I hate that I can't get to New York more often. But the show will travel, so I will see it somewhere, eventually. It's important to get out and see the real thing whenever you can.

Cheers,
Gary
 
gns said:
I hate that I can't get to New York more often. But the show will travel, so I will see it somewhere, eventually. It's important to get out and see the real thing whenever you can.

Cheers,
Gary
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i have a friend in the SF MOMA that told me it is going to paris(i think) and then munich after the whitney show. it will not be back in the US.

bob
 
Bob,

The Whitney website says the show will travel throughout the U.S. and to Munich.
I hope that is correct.

Cheers,
Gary
 
From the website..."The exhibition will travel throughout the United States as well as to the Haus der Kunst in Munich following its New York presentation".

So that means it is NOT traveling in the US? Or it has ALREADY done so?

Gary

Edit: The Eggleston Trust site lists several stops in the US after Munich, including D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles.
 
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the schedule for this exhibit

the schedule for this exhibit

from the Eggleston Trust website

Exhibition Tour Schedule as of June 2008:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
November 7, 2008-January 25, 2009

Haus der Kunst, Munich
February 20-May 17, 2009

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
June-September 2009

Fall 2009 - To be determined

Winter 2009/2010 - To be determined

Art Institute of Chicago
February 20-May 16, 2010

Summer 2010 - To be determined

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
November-January 2011

Thankfully, I won't have to brave the trip to NYC to see this show.

Mary in SW Florida
 
I went yesterday.
It's all about the colors. Wow. It's just amazing to see the depth of color that he gets in the prints. I don't know if the catalog can capture that.
One of the more remarkable photos is taken on an airplane, of a glass of coke lit up by the sun shining through the airplane window. It's got to be the most beautiful picture ever taken of the inside of a commercial airliner, but that aside, there is on display some sort of small snapshot size working print, in addition to the large display print. That really was revealing to me, because the richness of the color in the finished product was even more apparent compared to the working copy.
 
"...on display some sort of small snapshot size working print, in addition to the large display print. That really was revealing to me, because the richness of the color in the finished product was even more apparent compared to the working copy".

Which is why I said it's important to make an effort to see the real thing. Photographs reproduced in books can often be a pretty good substitute. Depends on the work and the reproduction quality, of course. Jpegs on a computer monitor are usually much too far from the original to be satisfying at all.

Cheers,
Gary
 
It's a pretty amazing exhibition. I appreciate his work much more now and plan to go back.

If you visit the Whitney, be sure to also stop on the second floor, where they're showing a documentary on Eggleston where he talks a little about how he works.
 
I went yesterday and the show converted me into a fan. While it probably could have been edited a bit more, it is a wonderful show definitely worth seeing if you like him or not. In particular the quality of prints from the mid 70's is amazing. I was particularly taken with how modern the show felt, mostly because a lot of contemporary fashion photographers seems to have been influenced by him. His color palette and atmosphere seem to have stepped straight out of a Prada ad although I know it's just the opposite.

His black and white work and the later ink jet prints are pretty lackluster in comparison to the older stuff and that drink photo mentioned above is pretty amazing. Wish I had read this thread before attending as I missed the movie on the second floor.
 
bob338 said:
i have a friend in the SF MOMA that told me it is going to paris(i think) and then munich after the whitney show. it will not be back in the US.

bob
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i saw my friend again today and was informed that the eggleston exhibit will be going to the Art Institute in Chicago and the LACMA in 2010.
apparently it has been a very popular show.

bob
 
I saw it in January, having never really seen much of his work. It blew me away. Some of the photos had a preternatural reality about them. There are several comparisons of drug store prints displayed (small 4x6) and the final dye transfer prints. I can honestly say that the drug store prints were nothing special. I have done the same. But the final dye transfer print was another thing altogether. Wahwahweewah! I guess you can say that Eggleston was an artist who was heavy into post-processing, but the analogue chemical kind. To me it kind of gives an artistic legitimacy to those who heavily post-process in the digital era, if such was ever needed.

/T
 
Tuolumne said:
I guess you can say that Eggleston was an artist who was heavy into post-processing, but the analogue chemical kind. To me it kind of gives an artistic legitimacy to those who heavily post-process in the digital era, if such was ever needed.
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i'm inclined to believe that making a good dye transfer print is more about skill and taste than the amount of manipulation, per se. heavy post-processing is not the same thing as heavy-handed post processing.
 
aizan said:
i'm inclined to believe that making a good dye transfer print is more about skill and taste than the amount of manipulation, per se. heavy post-processing is not the same thing as heavy-handed post processing.
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i'm inclined to believe that good digital post-processing is more about skill and taste than the amount of manipulation, per se.

/T
 
Hi,

I've seen it in December. I didn't know Eggleston but went with a friend who did.
I was pleasantly surprised. I really like his work and can also see his place in the photographic history. I like his style and more or lees was copying that already even before I knew him.
Same evening I went to the ICP and got a personally signed copy from the book of Jessica Lang.
It was a great day.

Cheers,

Michiel Fokkema
 
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