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Mississippi

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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
negative 1973; print 1980
Medium
Dye imbibition print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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Puddles, the litter of empty oilcans, and the disfiguring patterns of tire tracks in the ground--a bleak, toxic scene, yet somehow the warm, coffee-toned brown of muddy water and earth lends a small measure of comfort to this image. Through his careful control of color, William Eggleston transformed dirt and garbage into a unique slice of landscape.

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