Mark Holborn writes about the dark undercurrent
of these mundane scenes as viewed through
Eggleston's lens: “His subjects are,
on the surface, the ordinary inhabitants
and environs of suburban Memphis
and Mississippi– friends, family,
barbecues, back yards, a tricycle
and the clutter of the mundane.
The normality of these subjects is deceptive,
for behind the images there is a sense of lurking danger.”