Between Memphis and Nashville

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Between Memphis and Nashville

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William Eggleston

American Photographer · 1939–present

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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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Date
about 1973
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
be442143-9e09-494b-866f-e823e37e0287

The reassuring Gulf Oil sign, a beacon to automobile travelers, dominates a nearly empty highway between Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. The bright orange circle hovers in the center of the photograph against a stormy sky as if suspended from the intersecting electrical wires that crisscross the landscape. William Eggleston included this image in his 1981 portfolio *Southern Suite.*

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