briennewalsh:

I was hanging out with a friend who makes video art last night, and we got to talking about photographers who make films. I showed him Robert Frank’s “Cocksucker Blues”, which is this awesome documentary about the Rolling Stones that was never released because the band was so pissed about the way it turned out. If you want to see it, Robert Frank has to be in the audience. Or you could watch it on YouTube.

In turn, my friend told me about William Eggleston’s “Stranded in Canton,” a film about the life he left behind in the boondocks of Memphis and New Orleans. I’ve only just started watching it, but so far, it’s exposing some real darkness in the mind of Eggleston, whose photographs turned some of the ugliest, most desperate landscapes in America into dreams. This film does just the opposite.

(Source: briennewalsh, via photographsonthebrain)