16-2-24

"There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn't that kind of the point?"

That's the very last line of the television show The Office. I don't think that's a spoiler, if you haven't seen it yet.

And it's true. There is beauty in the ordinary.

Rosa Eggleston, shared this story of how (William) Eggleston was inspired to first start photographing “ugly stuff”:

“Bill at one time said to his great, highly respected friend: well, what am I going to photograph? Everything here is so ugly.’ And our friend said, ‘Photograph the ugly stuff.’ Well we were surrounded everywhere by this plethora of shopping centers and ugly stuff. And that is really initially what he started photographing.”