"William Eggleston has an extraordinary, innate ability to render the commonplace compelling. He really does invite us to look afresh at things, especially the banal, random, fleeting, serendipitous, everyday things that he is so systematically and effectively able to metamorphose into memorable pictorial challenges to our senses. His luscious composition (Untitled) Red Dumpster, Orange Building, Memphis (2005) is a telling confirmation of the truism that the beautiful, the uncanny, the exotic, the stimulating and the mysterious are there all around us, hiding in plain view, as it were, until a gifted seer reveals them to us – in this instance through the medium of photography. Eggleston's pictures always have a structural and chromatic logic, yet they seem to obey no evident rules. He works fluidly, intuitively and with no didactic agenda. We are privileged simply to be able to join him for the ride and to delight in the opportunity to share in his intense and peculiar process of looking at, and questioning, the physical world."
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