Question
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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