William Eggleston

William Eggleston was the pioneer of colour photography in the early 1970’s and remains to this day one of as one of the world’s greatest colourists.

This exhibition revealed the extraordinary formal and emotional range of Eggleston’s work, which embraces the beautiful and sublime as well as the banal and ugly. It highlighted his tight instinctive control of form and intense colour, and the tension and sense of latent threat with which he infuses the most ordinary subjects.

With over 200 works, this exhibition spaned the artist’s career. From his early black & white prints of the 1960’s, and work from his controversial exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976 which was the first major museum exhibition to present colour photography, to his work of the 80s and 90s.

Eggleston’s approach was widely criticised in the 70’s but has proved an inspiration to a succeeding generation of photographers and filmmakers, from Nan Goldin and David Lynch to Martin Parr. This was his first major showing in Britain since 1992.

A full colour publication produced by the Fondation Cartier, published by Thames and Hudson, accompanies the exhibition.

The William Eggleston exhibition was organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

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William Eggleston