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William Eggleston

American • b. 1939

Biography

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.

Insights

William Eggleston is best known for his dye transfer prints, a highly stable color process famous for its intense saturation of color.
Today, dye transfer printing is both costly and rare, as Kodak stopped manufacturing the chemicals to make the prints in the mid-1990s.
Eggleston's decisively casual images harbingered the use of color as a vital component of photographic composition.

"I am at war with the obvious."

Past Lots

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William Eggleston
Untitled, Memphis, TN (brown house in sunshine)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,620
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $5,080
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Couple in Red Car at Drive-In Restaurant), Memphis, TN
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $57,150
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Torch Café Billboard), Mississippi
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $16,510
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Old Ford and Stores)
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $38,100
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Coke Cooler & Pearl Sign)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $16,510
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $16,510
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William Eggleston
Untitled (20 m.p.h, School Zone Sign)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $9,525
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000
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William Eggleston
Memphis
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $317,500
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William Eggleston
Como, Mississippi (Black women in church)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,350
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Family on porch)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,620
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William Eggleston
Sumner, Mississippi
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
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William Eggleston
Outskirts of Morton, Mississippi, Halloween
Estimate £18,000 - 22,000
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William Eggleston
Tallahatchie County, Mississippi
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $60,960
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
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William Eggleston
Untitled (gas station, Sumter, Georgia)
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $30,480
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William Eggleston
Untitled
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £6,300
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William Eggleston
Morton, Mississippi
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
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William Eggleston
14 Pictures
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $176,400
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Memphis)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $22,680
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Wonder Bread)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,720
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William Eggleston
Untitled (Huntsville, Alabama)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $13,860
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