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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 1971; print 1980
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Bisected by black swaths of shadow, a brown dog blends into the rich, red late-afternoon light. Like the photographer, who so masterfully captures whatever environment in which he finds himself, the dogs that frequently appear in William Eggleston's photographs are intrepid witnesses, self-sufficient and all-seeing.
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