Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. His photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. His 1976 solo exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by John Szarkowski, marked one of the first presentations of color photography at the museum. Although initially criticized for its unfamiliar approach, the show and its accompanying catalogue, William Eggleston's Guide, heralded an important moment in the medium's acceptance within the art-historical canon, and it solidified the artist's position as one of its foremost practitioners to date. Eggleston's work continues to exert an influence on contemporary visual culture at large.
"...for all the changes to the working class, Eggleston's unbiased
and unencumbered photographic vision of the country has stayed so
fixedly relevant, and few others have come close to touching
him."--Alexandra Pechman "W Magazine"
"...not to be missed."--Prudence Peiffer "ARTFORUM"
"More than any other project by Eggleston, these photographs
deliver his aesthetic, which, as the title gives away, is also a
philosophy of democracy: the power of the ordinary, the beauty of
contingency, the aim of a universalist view."--Prudence Peiffer
"BOOKFORUM"
"Pioneering an approach to the photograph as meticulous as it is
seemingly effortless, Eggleston's work has charted a path and
progression through both his own chosen craft and the American
landscape."--D. Creahan "Art Observed"
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