William Eggleston - The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation New York Tuesday, October 3, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1994

  • Exhibited

    Hope Photographs, The National Arts Club, New York, February-March 1997, and traveling to 9 other venues through 2005

  • Literature

    George and Marks, eds., Hope Photographs, p. 82 (this print)

  • 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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Nashville, Tennessee

1971
Dye transfer print.
12 1/2 x 18 in. (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $11,875

Contact Specialist
Rachel Peart
Specialist
+1 212 940 1246

Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Deputy Chairman, Americas

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation

New York 3 October 2017