Directed by William J. Eggleston
An atmospheric, gritty documentary.
In 1973, photographer William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and took to documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans.
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If you're not an alcoholic, drug addict, genetic miscreant, broke-dick motherfucker with Dixie in your veins and Eartha Kitt on your lips carrying a loaded revolver in your boot and a dentist's diploma from Vanderbilt on your wall, but wonder what it may be akin to; well, Egg gives you a glimpse with his Sony PortaPack on Infa-Red settings as he sucks up blues' blood and chicken heads from the negro streets at dawn.
Canton is where I used to go to Waffle House, usually around 3 AM. A teenage line cook wearing Hot Topic leather-and-spikes told me and my friends that he was gonna step out for some smokes and kill himself. Canton's economy has been largely restructured by the Nissan plant that recently tried (and failed) to unionize. It's still filled with these weirdos.
Completed my master's degree today, thanks in large part to this film. Watched with a little celebratory whiskey and cobbler, as is only right.
William J. Eggleston uses an early Sony PortaPak to document the raw, unfiltered lives of eccentric characters and marginals across Memphis and New Orleans in the 1970s.
It was directed by renowned American photographer William J. Eggleston, compiled from footage he shot in the early 1970s.
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