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	Masters of Photography: William Eggleston
		Eggleston's work startled audiences by intensifying the banality of the color snapshot to a level that demanded aesthetic response, something that many viewers were unprepared to give, responding instead with outrage that "this" should be offered as art.
		It was the snapshot aesthetic used with a nonviolent vengeance, and the echoes of the attack have not died.
		William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1937.
	www.masters-of-photography.com /E/eggleston/eggleston_articles1.html (296 words)

	William Eggleston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eggleston later had few fond memories of the school, saying to a reporter, "It had a kind of Spartan routine to 'build character.' I never knew what that was supposed to mean.
		Eggleston took art classes at Ole Miss and was introduced to Abstract Expressionism by a visiting painter from New York named Tom Young.
		Eggleston taught at Harvard in 1973 and 1974, and it was during this period when he discovered dye-transfer printing when he was examining the price list of a photographic lab in Chicago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Eggleston (1141 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| William Eggleston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Eggleston, now 60 years old, seems securely attached to the title "Father of Color Photography." Maybe the word "color" should be modified by "art" or "artistic," because of course he didn't invent the process.
		Though Eggleston and Presley came from opposite ends of the social spectrum, there was a certain poetic justice in the choice of Eggleston as the one to preserve Presley's milieu.
		Eggleston loves the obvious -- he hates, and is indeed at war with, the idea of it, the contempt in which it is held.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/09/07/eggleston/print.html (1865 words)

	The Observer \| Magazine \| Out of the ordinary
		Eggleston has travelled from his native Memphis to Manhattan to accept a lifetime achievement award from the Institute of Contemporary Photography, and the previous night he had celebrated in the company of the great Czech-born photographer Josef Koudelka, who was also honoured.
		Eggleston is the slowest and most softly spoken person I have ever met, and the silence while he considers a question is so deep and long that I find myself wondering if he has simply chosen to ignore my fumbling attempts at elucidation.
		Born in Memphis in 1939, Eggleston was raised in a grand house on a former cotton plantation amid considerable wealth and privilege, and retains the airs and graces of the old southern aristocracy.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /magazine/story/0,11913,1266665,00.html (3686 words)

	William Eggleston - Recent Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Eggleston is working most often in his neighbourhood in Memphis, Tennessee and the state of Mississippi.
		Eggleston was still an unknown photographer from the deep South, when John Szarkowski, the photography curator of the MOMA in New York, offered him a solo exhibition in 1976 on the basis of a portfolio of hundreds of colour slides that were taken between 1969 and 1971.
		The photographs of William Eggleston are not valuable as social documents : they seem resistent to any universal or exemplary meaning and appear as hermetic as a family album.
	www.xavierhufkens.com /press2001_eggleston.htm (379 words)

	The 1998 Hasselblad award winner - William Eggleston
		The award winner, William Eggleston, received the award from Her Royal Highness Princess Désirée at a ceremony at Artisten in Göteborg.
		William Eggleston has been the leading pioneer in the field of color photography since the 1970s.
		Just as Robert Frank established an informal "beat" aesthetic in his work in the 1950s, in the 1970s William Eggleston has transformed the potential of what can be expressed with color.
	www.hasselbladfoundation.org /prize_1998_en.html (197 words)

	Hayward Gallery \| 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.
		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.
		The William Eggleston exhibition was organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
	www.hayward.org.uk /archive_exhib_detail.asp?i=17 (204 words)

	William Eggleston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Photographer William Eggleston was the first color photographer to show his work in the Museum of Modern Art.
		In her introduction to Eggleston’s book Democratic Forest, Eudora Welty wrote, "These extraordinary, compelling, honest, beautiful and unsparing photographs all have to do with the quality of our lives in the ongoing world: they succeed in showing us the grain of the present, like the cross-section of a tree.
		Eggleston's last show at the gallery was in November of 2002 and the gallery has a nice collection of his work dating from the mid-80s to the mid-90s.
	www.southsideoxford.com /photographers/william_eggleston (171 words)

	William Eggleston
		Eggleston showed John Szarkowski, then curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, a suitcase full of color slides which led to the landmark exhibition at the MoMA in 1976 and the production of the famous accompanying catalogue William Eggleston's Guide.
		In 1974, William Eggleston was a lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and in 1978-79 he worked as a researcher in color video at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		The rediscovery and worldwide recognition of William Eggleston began in 1992 with an exhibition at the Barbican Gallery in London.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo24/william_eggleston.htm (659 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - William Eggleston in the Real World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The focus of Eggleston's work, on the most surface level, is fractured visions of Americana: burned out gas stations, cragged faces of Midwesterners, blue skies, and bright red automobiles.
		William Eggleston in the Real World follows Eggleston in action as he takes pictures in the streets and local stores of Mayfield, Kentucky, followed by visits to Los Angeles, New York, and Eggleston's home city Memphis, unfolding in a rough hand-held video format, narrated by director Michael Almereyda himself, who shares his impressions of Eggleston.
		As Almereyda speaks about Eggleston's photographs, he discusses the work as "hiding in plain sight," "familiar and strange, recognizable and indelible," "a part of a thing can reflect a whole…a wider truth," "an unbalanced emotion between fear and love…" It's a personal, revealing take on Eggleston.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1757 (511 words)

	eyestorm - William Eggleston - biography
		Before Eggleston, color photography in the form of snapshots, postcards and print ads appeared much more frequently in the work of The Independent Group and the Pop artists than it did in art photography circles, where it was seen as a crass commercial gimmick.
		Eggleston has always viewed his work as chapters in a novel; his visual and artistic concerns have evolved over time and are expressed in discrete sets.
		Eggleston's work is compared with the great Southern writers William Faulkner and Eudora Welty almost as often as it is with other photographers.
	www.eyestorm.com /artist/William_Eggleston_biography.aspx (769 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Exhibition Overview: William Eggleston
		William Eggleston is known for his pioneering work in color photography, which he helped establish as a serious artistic medium.
		Capturing images of everyday Southern life and vernacular culture, William Eggleston developed a highly personal style that flirts with the banal and exploits the visual vocabulary of the snapshot.
		When Eggleston's photographs were first exhibited in 1976, they provoked a critical response that ranged from admiration to outright condemnation.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=162 (392 words)

	William Eggleston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After the lyrical and mythic Ansel Adams, the photographs of William Eggleston are like a punch in the gut with a fist full of messy real life.
		Eggleston was an entirely different pioneer — not only of colour photographer, and a rapid, almost casual style (often without using the viewfinder); but also in portraying the seamy underbelly of America and the sordid detritus of human life.
		Eggleston photographs an elderly man, casually holding a gun while sitting on a bed in a cheap motel.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /photo/eggleston.htm (467 words)

	Amazon.com: William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998: Books: William Eggleston,Gunilla Knape,Ute ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Eggleston's photos are of Delta cotton towns, piney woods and red clay dirt roads and blue sky, and they remind me of the time I was growing up in Arkansas, in the 70s and 80s, when Reagan was president and the natives were restless.
		I mean, Eggleston's the kind of guy who gets absorbed by throw-aways, like fancy ketchup packs or chewed paper cups on the side of the road in a ditch, and he'll zoom his camera on them to capture the moment.
		William Eggleston's subjects are the blind spots of conventional photographers: puddles, people caught in careless moments neither heroic nor pathetic, nondescript interiors, toys which are neither inviting nor menacing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/3908247985?v=glance (1311 words)

	Arts & Leisure: Wild Bill (Memphis Flyer . 07-26-99)
		It was 23 years ago that Memphis' own Wild Bill Eggleston, to the rest of the world seemingly sprung full-grown from the head of John Szarkowski, turned photography on its ear.
		"Eggleston's photographs often seem to have been taken not by a photographer but by a motorized camera swinging around the photographer's head on a string," ARTnews magazine opined on the occasion of "William Eggleston's Guide," the 1976 Museum of Modern Art exhibition curated by its photography director Szarkowski.
		Sometimes Eggleston's novel is a poem; sometimes the poem is a limerick, sometimes an elegy.
	weeklywire.com /ww/07-26-99/memphis_socvr.html (878 words)

	Paris Voice February 2002 William Eggleston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Eggleston is one of the pioneers of color art photography.
		Although William Eggleston put color photography on the map with his one-man show at the Museum of Modern art in New York (1976) there have been few opportunities to see his work in Europe due to a slower acceptance of color here.
		Eggleston broke with conventional compositional standards, showing details, as well as partial views of objects and people on the outer edges.
	parisvoice.com /02/feb/html/art1.cfm (352 words)

	William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		At Haslip's house, Eggleston sketches a free-form portrait while Haslip herself rather drunkenly rambles and lounges on a couch in her pajamas.
		Eggleston is still not saying a lot, but you are gradually liking him more and more, as you realize this is an artist with no pretensions whatsoever.
		And I'm just as happy to have not been born before there were the photographs of William Eggleston and this film by Michael Almereyda.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0443698 (548 words)

	William Eggleston: Los Alamos
		Eggleston's inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced the generation of photographers that followed him, as well as critics, curators, and writers concerned with photographs.
		Although he didn't invent the process, Eggleston is known as the "Father of Color Photography." He used a dye-transfer process that was radically new at the time but has now been bypassed by more recent technology.
		The process allowed Eggleston to print photographs of intense color and to control his palette in a manner similar to a painter controlling oil paint.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/5aa/5aa238.htm (734 words)

	WEGG3
		The first in the new 'usonian' series by William Eggelston 3, the STELAR 1 is a compact, three-way floor standing design with a full frequency response down to 28 Hz.
		William Eggleston 3 has a knack for devising bumblebee-like designs: They shouldn’t fly, but they do.
		In 1999, Eggleston left Eggleston Speaker Works and took a hiatus from audio so he could write and direct an independent film (yet to be released).
	www.wegg3.com (629 words)

	V&A Exploring Photography - William Eggleston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Eggleston's colour photographs pinpoint the moment when colour photography began to be generally accepted as part of the language of art photography.
		Adopting processes previously used to manipulate advertising images, Eggleston set the precedent for colour documentary and art photography of the last twenty years.
		Eggleston finds in places such as shopping centres and ordinary interiors, "the uncommonness of the commonplace", as photographer Raymond Moore described it.
	www.vam.ac.uk /vastatic/microsites/photography/photographer.php?photographerid=ph020&row=2 (117 words)

	William Eggleston's Guide
		William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography.
		The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average American's Instamatic pictures from the family album.
		For this edition of William Eggleston's Guide, The Museum of Modern Art has made new color separations from the original 35 mm slides, producing a facsimile edition in which the color will be freshly responsive to the photographer's intentions.
	www.artbook.com /0870703781.html (266 words)

	Coincidences: Excellent Reading on Eggleston, and Revisiting an Eggleston Protege
		I always felt there was more to the man than some technical descriptions about his dye transfer methods and his use of Leicas and Hasselblads, and finally there's a superb extended profile in the Guardian that talks about the wild man behind the wild work.
		The Guardian is partial to Eggleston, and his influence not just on other photographers, but on filmmakers as well...here's another fine article that talks about this influence, written around the time of the UK opening of Gus Van Sant's film Elephant.
		Posted by: ian at Aug 5, 2004 7:51:38 AM great info, I am a big eggleston fan and recently picked up a copy of the guardian interview here in london, its only a shame I missed his show at the hayward a few years back, I was away during that time.
	coincidences.typepad.com /still_images_and_moving_o/2004/08/excellent_readi.html (1192 words)

	The Zeugma: Book Reviews: William Eggleston: Horses & Dogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Eggleston it was who gave permission to photographers the world over to both be concerned with the banal facts of daily life, and to record them in a medium that was hitherto thought the just province of amateurs: colour.
		However, few photographers have actually taken up the challenge that was set by William Eggleston's Guide in 1976 at New York's Museum of Modern Art, preferring to focus instead on heroic subject matter if not heroic image design, in easily abstracting fl-and-white rather than more cerebrally difficult colour.
		Eggleston continues to be obsessed by the urban strip mall, darkling country roads, suburban backyards, regular folks in picket fence towns, and he seldom makes anything out of this seemingly mundane subject matter other than an interesting and absorbing image.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~karlpeter/zeugma/review/eggle1.htm (177 words)

	William Eggleston (Getty Museum)
		William Eggleston described his early inspiration for making color photographs as watching "a continuous ribbon of small, oblong images" emerge from developing machines in photographic laboratories.
		A native Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston has created a singular portrait of his native South since the late 1960s.
		The Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking one-man show of 1976, William Eggleston's Guide, established his reputation as the pioneer of modern color photography.
	www.getty.edu /art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1540&page=1 (164 words)

	William Eggleston (1939 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		William Eggleston was raised on a cotton plantation in Mississippi.
		William Faithorne, The Art of Graveing and Etching by William Faithorne (London: William Faithorne, 1662), 1662
		Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000 begins at the point at which photographers began to make work that was in part a reaction to this established vocabulary, and at the same time a continuation and extension of its tradition.
	wwar.com /masters/e/eggleston-william.html (911 words)

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