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© Juergen Teller for W Magazine, portrait of William Eggleston in Memphis, Tennessee, 2008

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It’s four o’clock, and Eggleston, sitting on the stoop outside his office, smokes another in a long line of cigarettes. The late sun striking the cars in the lot recalls his first real color photograph: a bag boy pushing a row of carts. “This is beginning to be my favorite kind of light,” he remarks, his words precise but elegantly drawn out. “It brings out a spectrum that appeals to me, warmer colors that I don’t always notice at other times. It’s like when a thunderstorm moves through and the light changes swiftly from cold to warm.”

- William Eggleston, from article by Rebecca Engel entitled, Southern Gothic, in the November 2008 issue of New York magazine

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William Eggleston is taking New York by storm again, not since his ground-breaking exhibition of color photographs for William Eggleston’s Guide at the Museum of Modern Art, returning with his first major retrospective in the United States at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

William Eggleston : Democratic Camera – Photographs and Video, 1961 – 2008 will be on view from November 7, 2008 through January 25, 2009. The exhibition is scheduled to travel to Washington D.C. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in the summer of 2009, the Chicago Art Institute in 2010 and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2011. A new book of the same title is also available directly from the Eggleston Artistic Trust Store.

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For more recent news on William Eggleston, click on:

William Eggleston – the enigmatic man who turned art photography on its ear | an insightful profile by Julie Belcove in the November 2008 issue of W Magazine.

Photographs by William Eggleston | recent auction held at Christie’s/New York with sales totaling nearly $3 million. The site provides a terrific opportunity to see all of the images from some of his most important portfolios, including Troubled Waters, Cadillac and Los Alamos.

Click on Auction Results and scroll on the drop-down menu to October, 2008

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