In Artforum, Greil Marcus wrote about the “irreducible dignity” of this photographer’s images of interiors at Graceland, comparing them to Walker Evans’s photojournalism of Alabama sharecroppers. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this photographer who depicted three white wires converging on a light fixture in a room painted in the title color in The Red Ceiling.
ANSWER: William Eggleston
[10m] Walker Evans also influenced an Eggleston photo taken at one of these businesses, in which a man walks away from the viewer. A pioneering photobook by Ed Ruscha (“roo-SHAY”) is titled for capturing Twentysix of these businesses.
ANSWER: gas stations [or filling stations, fuel stations, petrol stations, or service stations; accept Twentysix Gasoline Stations; prompt on stations]
[10e] In an interview, Eggleston recalled feeling devastated when this photographer, one of his heroes, told him that “color is bullshit.” This French street photographer published the book The Decisive Moment.
ANSWER: Henri Cartier-Bresson
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