One thing that confused me with Eggleston is that I discovered his work through books. And the books (especially early editions) have very limited color saturation, thanks to the limitations of the materials. So I thought of him as someone who worked with a somewhat odd but still subtle color palette.

Then when I saw some of the die transfer prints in person, my eyes almost exploded. In fact, the subtle relationships between the colors were still there, but the first thing I noticed was the decidedly unsubtle colors themselves. It took me a little while to get used to this.