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| William Eggleston snippet |
| William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer.
He is widely credited with securing recognition for colour photography as
a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. Eggleston's was the first one-person exhibition of colour photographs
in the history of MOMA. |
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| William Eggleston |
| William Eggleston (born July 27, 1939) is an American photographer.
He is widely credited with securing recognition for colour photography as
a legitimate artistic medium to display in art galleries. |
| Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of
Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank and by French photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson's book, The Decisive Moment. At first photographing in
black-and-white, Eggleston began experimenting with colour photography in
1965 and 1966, and colour transparency film became his dominant medium in
the late sixties. Eggleston's development as a photographer seems to
have taken place in relative isolation from other artists. |
| In 1970, Eggleston's friend William Christenberry introduced him to
Walter Hopps, director of Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery. Hopps
later said he was "stunned" by Eggleston's work: "I had never seen
anything like it." |
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