William Eggleston - Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One London Thursday, June 6, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 416

  • 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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Untitled (Mayfield, Kentucky) ca. 1999-2000

2002
Transparency printed in colours contained in an aluminium electrical light box.
45.8 x 60.4 x 2.5 cm (18 x 23 3/4 x 0 7/8 in.)
Signed and numbered 1/20 in blue ink on a label affixed to the reverse (there were also 5 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, for Documenta 11, Kassel.

Estimate
£2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for £2,250

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Anne Schneider-Wilson

Head of Sale, Senior Specialist 
London
+44 207 4042

Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019