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Eggleston, William
(American, b. 1939)
Huntsville, Alabama
1978
Dye transfer print
18 1/4 x 12 3/4 in.
Richard and Ethel Herzfeld Collection
M1991.198

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One of the first fine-art photographers to use color film when it was considered suitable only for amateurs, William Eggleston remains a master of this medium. He has defined and extended the technical and expressive parameters of color photography in his images, many of which depict the American South.

The simple planes of color, indirectly lit by an unseen source, frame the quiet, private drama of an ordinary man in an ordinary room, anywhere in the United States.

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