Well, 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 EgglestonI don't look at other photographs much at all. I don't know why. I study my own a lot.
William EgglestonOften 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 EgglestonI don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.
William EgglestonMy friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
William EgglestonA lot of my friends were mostly working in black-and-white-people like Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and others. We would exchange prints with each other, and they were always very supportive of what I was doing. What each of us was doing photographically was entirely different, but we were basically coming from the same place, sort of like a club.
William Eggleston