The past everything has been done and everything has been said in many more ways than one he has no choice but to devote himself to his own creation without the anxiety of comparison with the past and without the complex of their overthrow. It would also suffice to consider that today most young artists may know or think they know what came before them but for many centuries the great creators knew little of what was happening in their little town. That is why the children's toys that were photographed one hundred and fifty years apart by the great English pioneer of photography William Henry Fox Talbot and our wellknown contemporary American photographer William Eggleston provoke thoughts and questions.
Otherwise it's not even new What separates the two pictures of children's toys is more than a hundred and fifty years and more interesting than the performance of the anointing of originality. Talbot's captures our interest because it already raises albeit unconsciously the question of the Philippines Phone Number List transformation caused by the photographic imprint without even suspecting that its creator treated it as a work of art. But Eggleston's photography no longer poses questions since the photographer is convinced of its has shifted from the image itself to the way of its social presence and functioning. From the moment the certainty of its artistic status prevailed the struggle for its social importance began.
The one hand the bicycle in the photograph is used no doubt consciously as an idea of historical and social recording something that also emerges from the entirety of his photographic production and on the other hand the photograph itself is used as a commercial object with its own value since in huge digital print and in a very limited run secured prices in excess of half a million dollars. At the same time of course he caused lawsuits from betrayed buyers of old smaller prints of his photographs and raised the question of what and why it is a work of art in a different way. Perhaps this is indeed something new and not the photography of a child's toy. Except that this concerns the function of the work of art and not the work itself.