William Eggleston - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1998

  • Literature

    Hasselblad Center, William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998, n.p.
    Thames & Hudson, William Eggleston, pl. 109
    Steidl, William Eggleston: Chromes, Vol 3, p. 98

  • 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 (Huntsville, Alabama)

1970
Dye transfer print from 10.D.70.V2, printed 1996.
12 1/2 x 18 in. (31.8 x 45.7 cm)
Signed in ink in the margin; titled, dated, numbered 12/15, and annotated in an unidentified hand in ink within the Eggleston Artistic Trust copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp on the verso.

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$8,000 - 12,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024