Wednesday, 30 March 2011

William Eggleston for Marc Jacobs

Portrait of William Eggleston taken as part of a series for the Marc Jacobs campaign featured in Purple Magazine. The image of Eggleston was shot in a hotel room in Paris by photographer Juergen  Teller.
There was an interesting photo essay published by Juergen Teller in British Vogue Magazine in 2010 about William Eggleston. A famous fashion photographer recalls how we went on a mission with instructions by famous fashion magazine to shoot a portrait of William. And that is how a merge of two interests happened. Since that time Teller became Eggleston's assistant and takes all his inspiration from American photographer.
Juergen Teller is now one of the masters of the snapshot aesthetic in fashion photography, a style that was born in the 1990's as a reaction to the oversaturation of glamor previous decade. 
the actress Charlotte Rampling and  William Igglstona in various, slightly tasteless pictures.Teller made ​​his shots with compact 35-mm camera and built-in flash. Harsh light bleaches the color and enhances the mood of disreputable, glamorous and bohemian decadence. Despite the fact that the script is coined this story is  used as a real reputation of Eggleston as aristocratic southern "bad boys". Dakota Fanning also appears in this story - as a fictional daughter of Eglleston. Standing in a corner in a fluffy white dress and white satin toes, Fanning gives the impression of feminine Lolita, further exacerbating the erotic subtext of the story.