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

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  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 'The American Landscape: Color Photographs from the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman', 7 October 2009, lot 89

  • Exhibited

    Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 27 June- 22 September 2002, for another print exhibited
    William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 7 November 2008- 25 January 2009 and 4 other venues

  • Literature

    Doubleday, William Eggleston The Democratic Forest, p. 19
    Whitney Museum of American Art, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, pl. 105
    Whitney Museum of American Art, Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, n.p.

  • 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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Near Greenville, East Tennessee

1980s
Fujicolor Crystal Archive print, printed 2001.
11 7/8 x 17 7/8 in. (30.2 x 45.4 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; titled, dated and numbered 1/2 in an unidentified hand in ink, all within the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,250

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