William Eggleston - Photographs New York Thursday, October 8, 2015 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 8 October 2015

  • Provenance

    Christie's, New York, 'Photographs by William Eggleston From the Collection of Bruce and Nancy Berman', 13 October 2008, lot 128

  • Literature

    Thames & Hudson, William Eggleston, p. 44

  • 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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William Eggleston

Untitled (Family on porch)

1972
Dye transfer print from 10.D.V1, printed 1996.
12 5/8 x 17 3/4 in. (32.1 x 45.1 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; signed by William J. Eggleston III, in ink, titled and numbered 8/15 in an unidentified hand in pencil, all within the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 8 October 2015