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Mississippi
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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 October 1976; print 1977
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- Chromogenic print
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- American
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With its puddle-and-gravel parking lot, this rural roadside market veritably shouts "on the outskirts," where, indeed, it was made. William Eggleston often photographs highway architecture as a means of exploring the American landscape. His one-hundred-print book, *Election Eve* --so named because the images in it were taken on the eve of Jimmy Carter's 1976 presidential election--consisted of images such as this one, taken throughout his native South. Eggleston produced only five copies of this two-volume publication.
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