While you watch and listen to the plaintive piano playing of William Eggleston in Dave Anderson’s lovely video, keep this in mind: The 71-year-old, Memphis-born Eggleston is famous as a photographer not a musician. Shooting color when most fine-art types swore by black and white, Eggleston’s 1976 solo-exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art rattled the art world. His images were bold and vibrant.

His subject matter seemed mundane, banal. Decades—and dozens of one-man shows—later, his ability to distill the extraordinary from the ordinary remains resolutely modern and powerfully influential.

A self-taught musician Eggleston’s images have graced the album covers for Big Star, Spoon and Silver Jews. Here the camera turns in the other direction with Eggleston at the keyboard and Anderson behind the lens.