William Eggleston - Photographs Day Sale New York Thursday, April 2, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
    Christie's, New York, 'Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection, Part I', 7 April 2011, lot 250

  • Literature

    The Museum of Modern Art, William Eggleston's Guide, p. 59

  • 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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Black Bayou Plantation

circa 1970
Dye transfer print, printed 1980.
10 1/4 x 15 1/4 in. (26 x 38.7 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,000

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head, Photographs

Shlomi Rabi
Head of Sale, New York

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Photographs Day Sale

New York 2 April 2015 10am & 2pm