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Acquired from the above by the present owner
Beverly Hills, Gagosian, William Eggleston: Los Alamos, 27 September-10 November 2012, p.19 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
Mark Holborn, William Eggleston III and Winston Eggleston, eds., William Eggleston: Los Alamas Revisisted, Gottingen, 2012, p. 175 (another example illustrated)
Mark Holborn, 'William Eggleston: American Epic', The Financial Times, 14 September 2012, online (another example illustrated)
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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