NYAB Event - William Eggleston "Democratic Camera"

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At The Whitney Museum of American Art
Media: Photography

Nearly fifty years of extraordinary image-making by the photographer William Eggleston will be presented in a major retrospective, "William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961-2008" at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
This exhibition traces the artist's evolution from the beginnings of his career some 50 years ago to the present day, and includes more than 150 photographs, some never-before-exhibited, as well as the artist's rarely screened video diary of his legendary nocturnal wanderings, "Stranded in Canton." A key figure in American photography, Eggleston, who was born in 1939 in Memphis, is credited with almost single-handedly ushering in the era of color photography. The psychological intensity of the saturated color in Eggleston's pictures has had an enormous impact on the entire field of photography; as an influence, Eggleston has cited the Technicolor technique in the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

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