WILLIAM EGGLESTON BLACK AND WHITE

In the late 1950s Eggleston began photographing his hometown of Memphis, discovering many of the motifs that would come to define hi s seminal work in color: the diners, cars, gas stations, supermarkets, domestic interiors and the seemingly mundane gestures and exp ressions of his fellow citizens. Also here are his unconventional, sometimes tilted croppings, and above all his emphasis on the bea utiful in the banal. In the mid-1960s Eggleston began working with color and after experimenting with different exposure settings he was soo...[Read more]