William Eggleston: For a little bit.

William Eggleston Interview.

By Harmony Korine

Unlike Southern militias, Southern artists are primarily considered poets, not rebels. It just so happens, though, that the South's greatest living photographer, William Eggleston, is both. Now 69 and a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, Eggleston not only single-handedly introduced color to the land of art photography, but also invented a visual language composed of gas stations, bar lights, parking lots, shopping carts, and motel rooms couches, that exceeded the power of traditional black-and-white landscapes and studio portraits. In his nearly 50-year career, currently getting full exposure at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art's retrospective "William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008," the master photographer has chronicled the everyday lyrically and without falling into sentimentality. This past September, Eggleston and his son Winston drove from Memphis to Nashville to hang out with writer, photographer, and filmmaker Harmony Korine.

They sat on Korine's porch to talk . com