| William Eggleston is best known for his lyrical and deceptively simple color
photographs of the southern United States. His photography received its first
significant exposure in a 1976 solo exhibition at New York’s Museum of
Modern Art, and this image of a looming tricycle highlighted the cover of the
seminal exhibition catalog, William Eggleston’s Guide. As with other small-camera
photographers mining similar veins of our culture—among them Garry Winogrand
and Lee Friedlander—Eggleston’s pictures sparked controversy for
their apparent artlessness. . . .
:: Paul Roth, Curator of Photography and Media Arts
Corcoran Gallery of Art |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
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