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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 about 1970; print 1980
- Medium
- Dye imbibition print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
In this photograph of a rainy street, made at the exact moment of twilight when there is not light enough to reflect the full colors of the spectrum, the color is barely perceptible. Yet its vague, overall greenish tint reveals more than a black-and-white print could. William Eggleston's mastery of the color medium accounts for this subtle yet highly effective rendering.
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