LONDON – A previously unseen image of The Clash frontman Joe Strummer and a never-before exhibited portrait of actor Dennis Hopper will be displayed for the first time in the National Portrait Gallery this summer. The images will be included in the first museum exhibition devoted to the portraits of pioneering American photographer William Eggleston.

“William Eggleston Portraits” (July 21 to Oct. 23) will bring together over 100 works by the photographer, renowned for his vivid, poetic and mysterious images of people in diners, gas stations, phone booths and supermarkets.

Widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography, following his own experimental use of dye-transfer technique, Eggleston will be celebrated by a retrospective of his full career, including a selection of never-before seen vintage black and white photographs from the 1960s taken in and around the artist’s home in Memphis, Tenn.

The first major exhibition of Eggleston’s photographs in London since 2002 and the most comprehensive of his portraits, “William Eggleston Portraits” will feature family, friends, musicians and actors including rarely seen images of Eggleston’s own close relations.

Since first picking up a camera in 1957, Eggleston’s images have captured the ordinary world around him and his work is said to find “beauty in the everyday.” His portrayal of the people he encountered in towns across the American South, and in Memphis in particular, is shown in the context of semi-public spaces.