Photo nerds: The New York Times has an interview with William Eggleston, who brought what look like color snapshots to the Museum of Modern Art and similar venues back in the 1970s (Wikipedia).
What did Americans do before they had smartphones?
Of yet another famous photo — depicting a longhaired girl lying on the grass, eyes closed, a camera in her left hand — he tells me she wasn’t sleeping, she was on Quaaludes.
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When I show him Kim Kardashian West’s Instagram, he says, “I don’t know who that is. I’ve never even heard that name. I mean, she’s famous like me?”
Alcohol does reduce productivity:
I ask if his drinking ever got in the way of his photography. “I’ve never been able to take a picture after a drink,” he says. “It just doesn’t work. Maybe — I don’t know what it is. It’s not like I’m too drunk to take a picture. I just — the whole idea of it just goes away after one or two drinks.”
(see Why can’t a country’s productivity be predicted by alcohol consumption?)
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