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Main Street, facing East, Plains
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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- negative October 1976; print 1977
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c0ac43b1-ccd6-4def-b70b-4097df4b4a8b
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View of a street intersection, looking toward a row of buildings. A number of cars can be seen parked in front of and around the buildings. A man drives a pick-up truck in the foreground, while another man walks on the nearby sidewalk.
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