Often people ask what I'm photographing, which is a hard question to answer. And the best what I've come up with is I just say: Life today.
William EgglestonWell, probably the best way to put it might be that at some time, not just in an instant, but over some period of time I became aware of the fact that I wanted to document examples like Kroger or Piggly Wiggly in the late '50s, early '60s.
William EgglestonWhether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might doโitโs ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.
William EgglestonI had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.
William Eggleston