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Untitled, Memphis
Creator
William EgglestonAmerican Photographer · 1939–present
All works by this person →William Eggleston 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
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- about 1972–1973
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The body of a young girl, cropped from her shoulders to just below her knees and presented in profile, exudes all-American teenager posture and 1970s style. William Eggleston took the picture as part of his earliest series, "Los Alamos," which he made over a seven-year period. For this print, Eggleston used color coupler printing, a quick, cheap process yielding "natural" color. From a color negative, he made a positive print on paper containing three emulsion layers of silver salts sensitized respectively to red, green, and blue. During development, he added dye couplers that joined to the silver particles to form three color layers. The superimposition of the color layers produces a full-color image.
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