The photographers.

"Like [Gus] Van Sant, [Sofia] Coppola name-checked [William] Eggleston as a guiding influence. 'It was the beauty of banal details that was inspirational,' she said at the time of the film's release." Steve Rose, in turn, name-checks a slew of other filmmakers in the whose work bears Eggleston's influence: Harmony Korine, David Gordon Green, Kathryn Bigelow, David Byrne, Susan Seidelman, David Lynch and Larry Clark.

"Pink Bathroom, Sprague Factory" (detail), David Byrne at LipanjePuntin Contempary Art Gallery in Trieste

Photographers have swarmed the Guardian's pages recently, thanks mostly to Peter Conrad previewing the exhibitions Cecil Beaton: Portraits at National Portrait Gallery next month and Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective at the V&A in March. And he remembers Helmut Newton: "Though the designers and the glossy editors may not have noticed, he was a satirist, who exposed the perversity of the industry for which he toiled."

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