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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 Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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