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William Eggleston
Untitled (Spoon on Windowsill, Kentucky)
- Estimate
- £3,000 - 5,000‡
Lot Details
pigment print
signed 'William Eggleston' lower right; stamped with the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp and numbered '2/7' on the reverse
71 x 56 cm (27 7/8 x 22 in.)
Executed in 1999 and printed in 2009, this work is number 2 from an edition of 7.
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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.