Images for Response

The picture I picked out is called untitled, by William Eggleston in 1965. It's a picture of a young men pushing grocery carts together at a grocery store. I think this picture was taken to show people how hard it was back then. I think Eggleston took this picture to prove that everybody, even young men such as this, had to work to support their family. The young man looks about 16 or 17, and you could tell he works there. He is wearing an apron, and he is pushing three carts together. Looking at the time of day, you could tell its the afternoon. The young man probaly just started working. He shows a little sense of trouble. His facial expression shows that he is having trouble doing what he is doing. The old lady in the backgroud looks at him, but says nothing. This proves that it is usual to find young men working in those days. The young man is Caucasian. This shows that even white people in those days had to work to earn a living. Segregation had just ended five years prior, so it was still a little unusual to find a find a white man doing what they saw as a black man's job. This could be another reason why Eggleston took the picture. To show how segregation changed the world.
William Eggleston was known for his color pictures. He started experimenting in 1965, so this picture was one of his experiments. By the 1970's, Eggleston began being famous for his work. This all shows how brilliant he was at color pictures. This picture was one of his first color pictures, and it shows so much detail. He loved bringing his pictures to life, and that's exactly what he did in this picture. Just by putting his pictures in color, he bring the story of this young man's life to the surface, it brought anybody who looks at this picture to another world. An American artist Edward Ruscha, said it himself about Egglestons work "When you see a picture he’s taken, you’re stepping into some kind of jagged world that seems like Eggleston World.”