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New Orleans
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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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- negative about 1970; print 1980
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Clear plastic bags of trash piled up on a painted brick walk silently raise issues of consumerism and waste in contemporary American culture. William Eggleston included this graphic depiction, nagging yet not unattractive, in his 1980 portfolio *Troubled Waters.*
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