Szarkowski's Thoughts

Pg.11 Szarkowski states that Eggleston reversed the way an original photographer would take pictures. Even those photos seem uninteresting or exotic than those portraits of our family is is Eggleston's interests. Pictures based compostionally on the Confederate Flag. Egglestons photos are not focused on answering a large question but rather simply describing life. The pictures are not focused on answering a large question but rather simply describing life. The pictures in this book are meant to be exactly what they look like and what they mean. Even though Eggleston's pictures look very simple, they are not so simple because most of the pictures seemed to radiate from a central, circular core.