William Eggleston Article

[tirediron]

This might be due to a psychological effect called 'priming'; we are influenced by the fact that he is well known and his pictures are well thought of, the pictures are well edited and printed, even that we decided to go back and look at them. Thus we are 'pushed' to find the details that may make our response align with what subconscious has been primed to see.

THANK-YOU Lew!!! That is the most straight-forward, succinct explanation of a concept I've been trying to articulate for years!!!!

 

[The_Traveler]

This might be due to a psychological effect called 'priming'; we are influenced by the fact that he is well known and his pictures are well thought of, the pictures are well edited and printed, even that we decided to go back and look at them. Thus we are 'pushed' to find the details that may make our response align with what subconscious has been primed to see.

THANK-YOU Lew!!! That is the most straight-forward, succinct explanation of a concept I've been trying to articulate for years!!!!

You would enjoy 'Thinking Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. Just reading that now and his discussions of the two ways everyone of us thinks has just amazing associations with photography, liking photographs and, especially evaluating and critiquing.

This is the DLable PDF
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman.pdf

 

[tirediron]

Thanks, on the iPad!