Eudora Welty said an Eggleston photograph might include “old tires, Dr Pepper machines, torn posters, parking meters and palm trees crowding the same curb. The unsparing photographs have to do with the quality of our lives in the ongoing world: they succeed in showing us the grain of the present, like the cross-section of a tree. They focus on the mundane world. But no subject is fuller of implications than the mundane world!”