Eggleston Always

for the USA

Sometime in the 1980’s. Somewhere in the US.

This is a Winter picture. Because that is a poinsettia. Those red ‘petals’ are just leaves that turn red like the deciduous trees we are all used to.

I wonder if these are winter pictures, too. Someone who recognizes that bush could tell us. How high in the sky does the sun get in LA on the solstice? The light is bright enough (and blue enough) to turn the orange paint yellow and the pink paint white; does that make it 11am to 1pm light?

The diner table scene has no shadows. Maybe this is noon in Southern California. or Southern Florida. The sun is hitting the roof of the diner and bouncing around outside the windows so much that the whole inside of the diner gets lit evenly.

East or west, these are all Southern USA. We could look at the stucco, or the plants, or the color choice on the upholstery to tell us. But, you can move all of those things a little, maybe a lot, north.

It’s the light.

I can’t tell you everything about the light that r…