William Eggleston - Photographs New York Tuesday, April 1, 2014 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 7 October 2010, lot 292

  • Exhibited

    Photographs by William Eggleston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 26 May- 1 August 1976, for another print exhibited

  • Literature

    Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, p. 106

  • Artist Biography

    William Eggleston

    American • 1939

    William Eggleston's highly saturated, vivid images, predominantly capturing the American South, highlight the beauty and lush diversity in the unassuming everyday. Although influenced by legends of street photography Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston broke away from traditional black and white photography and started experimenting with color in the late 1960s.

    At the time, color photography was widely associated with the commercial rather than fine art — something that Eggleston sought to change. His 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Color Photographs, fundamentally shifted how color photography was viewed within an art context, ushering in institutional acceptance and helping to ensure Eggleston's significant legacy in the history of photography.

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Morton, Mississippi

1972
Dye transfer print, printed 1986.
17 1/4 x 11 in. (43.8 x 27.9 cm)
Signed in ink, numbered 4/7 in an unidentified hand in pencil and 'William Eggleston's Guide' stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $15,000

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