William Eggleston

William Eggleston is a photographer from Memphis Tennessee. His family are wealthy cotton planation owners so he was born into wealth. This aspect is important in Egglestons style. Eggleston is a photographer that played a very important part in getting colour photographs recognised as Art. This happened when John Szarkowski Recognised Egglestons work of having potential for an exhibition in New York MOMA. This exhibition took place in 1976 and was titled Eggleston's Guide.   Critics slammed the work at first but now critics hang off his every word and anything Eggleston puts his name to would sell.

As he was born into a wealthy family and business that could of had a influence on the way he created photographs as he didnt have to worry about creating work from it, he was able to experiment with style and show the world his world through his unique style of photography. Egglestons colour photography was so highly recognised because of his unique style of printing. He create his colour prints with a process that was predominantly reserved for advertisement. This was called Dye Transfer and creating prints where colours were highly saturated and balanced.

Eggleston is also known for only taking one photograph of each thing, this can sometimes mean that compositionally they can be slightly imperfect with un-straight horizons and small obstructions to the frame, but to me they all add to the photograph. 

Below are examples of his work, Credit to William Eggleston: