WILLIAM EGGLESTON, Untitled [Woman at Art Show], c. 1984, 5.5x8.25" Chromogenic print, Printed later, Signed and numbered in ink on print verso: 13/15 W. Eggleston.

William Eggleston is acknowledged as the father of Modern Color Social Documentary photography. Here is one of his typically simple juxtapositions of color, casual movement, a woman passing in front/blending into a painting at an exhibit.

William Eggleston (b. 1939) assumes a neutral gaze and creates his art from commonplace subjects: a farmer's muddy Ford truck, a red ceiling in a friend's house, the contents of his own refrigerator. In his work, Eggleston photographs "democratically," literally photographing the world around him. His large-format prints monumentalize everyday subjects, everything is equally important; every detail deserves attention.

A native Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston has created a singular portrait of his native South since the late 1960s. After discovering photography in the early 1960s, he abandoned a traditional education and instead learned from photographically illustrated books by Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank. Although he began his career making black-and-white images, he soon abandoned them. Instead, he began to use color technology to record experiences in more sensual and accurate terms at a time when color photography was largely confined to commercial advertising. In 1976, with the support of curator John Szarkowski, Eggleston mounted "Color Photographs," a now famous exhibition of his work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. William Eggleston's Guide, in which Szarkowski called Eggleston's photographs "perfect," accompanied this groundbreaking one-person show that established his reputation as a pioneer of color photography. His subjects were mundane, every day, often trivial, so that the real subject was seen to be color itself. These images helped establish Eggleston as one of the first non-commercial photographers working in color and inspired a new generation of photographers, as well as filmmakers. Eggleston continues to live and work in Memphis.

CREDIT: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/1505/william-eggleston-american-born-1939/

Excellent. Minor wear in margin.