>>4154307>Gary winogrand knew a thing or two about composing a scene>Ansel just pointed the camera in awkward directions and called it intentional.Did you get your photographers mixed up anon? Gary's entire philosophy was he wasn't trying. He was pointing the camera in awkward, random directions and taking so many photos by trial and error (he would set the exposure settings for the day, usually f/11 with a high shutter speed, and then guess how much he needed to push the film later) that he left hundreds of undeveloped rolls he probably forgot the contents of and just as many unfinished prints. He got lucky a lot of times but he also relied heavily on racial privilege that ansel adams didn't have to attain any recognition. Not real recognition, rather, people were told that he was getting recognition, so in the interest of seeming intelligent and in the know, they said "oh yeah that's cool"
Thus - "Photography, a middlebrow art"
Eggleston was an even bigger hack. If gary's career was random luck aided by racial privilege, eggleston's was pure nepotism. He put effort into being bad. It was the thing among the upper class whites with distant noble ties back then. And what was he? An upper class sorta inbred white guy. Art culture at the time, especially with regards to photography, was strongly colored by racial privilege with regards to whose snapshits were let into the club and exhibited in the same-race-as-the-photographer (sorta inbred white guy) owned galleries.
