Photographs from an Important Collection
248
William Eggleston
Untitled (gas station, Sumter, Georgia)
- Estimate
- $15,000 - 20,000
$30,480
Lot Details
Dye-transfer print, printed 2011.
1976
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; Eggleston Artistic Trust and 'Election Eve' copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps on the verso. Number 5 from an edition of 10.
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William Eggleston
American | 1939William 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.
Browse ArtistAt 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.