After just returning from Look3, the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia, you'd think that I'd be on photo-overload. But when Janelle Nanos and I got the offer to take a sneak peek at the new William Eggleston exhibit, opening this Saturday, June 20, at the Corcoran, I jumped at the chance....my eyes can rest when I'm sleeping!Eggleston is best known for bringing color photography into the fine art realm, and his landmark exhibit at MoMA is still considered groundbreaking. In the early 1970s, he began to use the dye-transfer process to get intensely saturated prints previously only used in advertising photography. Eggleston's unique perspective on everyday and ordinary subject matter, like the inside of an oven or a tricycle, is at times humorous and occasionally sad. This exhibit is a retrospective of his work, from his early days in black and white to his more recent work in Japan and Berlin.
If you are in D.C. between this Saturday and September 20th, head down to the Corcoran to see William Eggleston: Democratic Camera; Photographs and Video. Plus, on Saturdays through August, the Corcoran will offer free admission. And don't forget to check out Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes, it closes July 12th.
Photo: William Eggleston, Memphis, 1975; dye transfer print; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Gift of Mr. Morris R. Garfinkle, 1987.30.3
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