The point you make about the lack of people, that seems important, one doesn’t get “no people” in urban scenes just by accident. As noted by @plaven - the lack of people - including in the bicycle image - brings up scenes from all the disaster movies that have been made over the last couple of decades. The low angle of the bicycle image is a classic angle used in horror movies to convey “menace” and “not normal”, possibly effective because it’s the angle from which we viewed the world as infants and toddlers?
It turns out I’d seen both examples (the bicycle and the red ceiling) of famous Eggleston photographs before, but I didn’t remember the photographer’s name or realize they were by the same person. My reaction to both photographs was pretty much the same: “That’s an ugly, pointless photograph.”, followed by “Why on earth is this considered to be an important photograph?”, followed by further examination and a growing sense of unease. I don’t know where the unease comes from.
There is a great big huge difference between viewing an actual print and viewing a digitized version of same - the way Eggleston talks about that red ceiling, it’s intensely red. I wonder how large the print is, what the surface texture looks like, what the red color really looks like, the sRGB color gamut is fairly lacking in intense red colors.
There is also a great big huge difference between images viewed in isolation and images viewed “en masse”. A long time ago I was privileged enough to view a large collection of Edvard Munch paintings in a Smithsonian museum exhibit. The paintings were arranged in long, twisting aisles. By the time I reached the end of the collection, I was somewhat ready to run screaming holding my head just as depicted in one of his more famous paintings:
Seen individually I doubt there are many of Munch’s paintings that I’d find immediately accessible. But seen all at once, the paintings formed into a whole that made a lot of sense, carried a lot of emotion, feeling, viewpoints on life that perhaps we don’t normally take notice of. Currently I’m reading a book about Munch and his paintings, and it turns out that he himself intended for many of them to be viewed as collections, and his reason for painting in the first place was to capture “emotion” - I’m using “scare quotes” because “emotion” seems like a very weak word to use in the context of Munch’s paintings.
Returning to Eggleston’s images in the lensculture slide show, I have a feeling that if a proper selection from the larger series of images, from which the slide show images were drawn, were displayed “all at once” in a museum, the effect would be considerably greater than a seemingly random, small sub-collection viewed one at a time in a slide show on a monitor screen. This is just a guess.
Like @houz I do not have much appreciation for the images in the slide show, though I’d allow that they have technical merit. Except for some reason (probably entirely idiosyncratic) I like the blue/green building image.
Also I agree with @paperdigits - the colors in the pink shack photo are totally appealing. For me, the trash cans in the pink shack photo send the image as a whole directly into the realm of “not comfortable to view” as the trash cans are very ugly. Plus the whole image is tilted, makes it seem like everything is sliding off to the right - is this intentional? accidental?
Returning to the idea of a properly designed museum exhibit, maybe as displayed “en masse” a reaction of ‘not comfortable to view’ is part of the point of these images?
Or maybe it’s a simple case of "Well, this guy is famous, and so we’ll be able to sell some books with some of his photos that didn’t make the cut for previously published work? Just because a photographer is considered “good”, doesn’t mean every photograph by that photographer is equally “good”.
stockholm syndrome I can’t turn against it with all the time I’ve invested.
. It reminds me of the uncanny sculptures in a wax museum, though I haven’t been to one. They are lifelike yet very much devoid of it – artificial, ephemeral yet imposing in a banal way. I certainly wouldn’t want my laptop or a family member to be made of wax 
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I nominate