William Eggleston - Photographs London Friday, May 19, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, 2006

  • Literature

    M. Frizot, A New History of Photography, Cologne: Könemann, 1998, p. 657 (black and white variant)
    William Eggleston, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001, pl. 61
    J. Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, New York: MoMA, 2002, p. 105
    William Eggleston: Democratic Camera: Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, New Haven: Yale U., 2008, pl. 34

  • 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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Outskirts of Morton, Mississippi, Halloween

1971
Dye transfer print.
30 x 45 cm (11 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Signed and annotated '(Ed of 15)' in pencil on the verso. One from an edition of 15.

Estimate
£18,000 - 22,000 

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Photographs

London Auction 19 May 2023