Breakfast with elvis is “work of the month” at the Le Musée de la Photographie
“August’s work invites us to travel to Oakland, on the west coast of the United States, inside a diner. Sometimes a place of meeting but most often of passage, the famous American diner has long fascinated artists. If it’s Edward Hopper’s paintings that come to mind first, the diner will become one of the recurring symbols of American visual culture. Taken in 1985 by American photographer Steve Davis, this photograph spontaneously reminds us of William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz. By the mid-1970s, all three had led to the recognition of color photography within museum institutions and art galleries. They will be the figureheads …
