William Eggleston

London's National Portrait Gallery opens a landmark retrospective on the Americana-hoarding, colour photography pioneer William Eggleston.

View the work of William Eggleston, regarded as one of photography’s most uncommonly talented practitioners.

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In William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest: Selected Works, the photographer’s charge to himself seems to be, "Make a picture of nothing at all," the emptiness takes on a special character. Seizing on the blankness as the very thing to see, he joins the poet Wallace Stevens in voyaging through the God-less realms where it is left to the hapless twentieth-century self, embarked on its own idiotic quest, to discern the difference between the “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that…

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Until the 1970s, color photography was considered inappropriate for the artwork. Only black and white photographs met the standards of art critics. But then cam

When Eggleston started photographing, the only images considered art were in black and white. But the self-taught photographer understood the power of his bright hues and shots of mundane scenes in color.

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