Comments on: Quiz: Name the senior

By: William Greiner

William Greiner — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:59:04 +0000

Christian, I think it was Harvard Uni., Carpenter Center?

By: paul

paul — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:38:42 +0000

he kinda looks like kafka…

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:37:32 +0000

Hey, that’s my scan!

Eggleston also attended several different colleges, and never finished one of them.

But that didn’t stop him from teaching at MIT.

By: stewart

stewart — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:57:06 +0000

very stylish tie. very sharp.

By: Shane Lavalette

Shane Lavalette — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 23:29:48 +0000

I believe that yearbook photo of Eggleston is dated 1956.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:02:41 +0000

I’m not sure how Webb / Bell Buckle has developed over the years, but I was a graduate of Webb / Knoxville in the early 1990s. At least when I was there, the art students had a reasonable amount of “mindshare.” Not that the administration liked it — we ended up rocking the boat more than they wanted.

The Webb family is an interesting group of people — they founded at least three schools, two in Tennessee, and one in California. For the South, it’s unusual because they were fairly non-denominational.

By: Alec Soth

Alec Soth — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:32:18 +0000

At the age of fifteen, Eggleston was sent to the Webb School, a boarding school in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.

"It had a kind of Spartan routine to 'build character.' I never knew what that was supposed to mean. It was so callous and dumb. It was the kind of place where it was considered effeminate to like music and painting." W. Eggleston (link)

"One of the older students used to tell me, 'Eggleston, I don't know whether to call you "shit-tit" or "tit-shit."" (link)

By: jaime

jaime — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:07:46 +0000

Eggleston.

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:28:31 +0000

Eggleston