Creativity Photo

Photo by: William Eggleston

I chose this photo because something about it says, "Creative" to me.  It is a picture of underneath a bed.  I thought it was creative because this is not something that you see very often.  It is from a shoe's perspective.  What does a shoe see from the ground?  It sees other shoes and junk that you dropped and haven't picked up yet. It sees that bottom of the bed, not the top that you spend so much time everyday making and put so much effort in to looking nice.  It sees the structure and the framework, not the aesthetically pleasing part of the bed.

In an interview by Joerg Colberg in 2004, Eggleston says, “‘A picture is what it is,’ he says when I ask him why he no longer wishes to talk about individual photographs, ‘and I’ve never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn’t make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they’re right there, whatever they are.’”

I believe this quote goes along well with this photo because you really can't explain this photo.  Who really knows what made Eggleston take this picture?  It is what it is.  It is a picture of shoes under a bed.  They are not particularly good looking shoes, organized in anyway.  Just the shot from ground level.