William Eggleston

Showed at NPG in London “William Eggleston Portraits” brings together over 100 works by the American photographer, renowned for his vivid, poetic and mysterious images.

“William Eggleston Portraits” brings together over 100 works by the American photographer, renowned for his vivid, poetic and mysterious images of people in diners, petrol stations, phone booths and supermarkets. It is the first major exhibition of Eggleston’s photographs in London since 2002 and the most comprehensive of his portraits.

**Top:** William Eggleston, Untitled, c.1975 (Marcia Hare in Memphis Tennessee), 1975. © Eggleston Artistic Trust **Above:** William Eggleston, Untitled, 1974 (Karen Chatham, left, with the artist's cousin Lesa Aldridge, in Memphis, Tennessee), 1974. Wilson Centre for Photography © Eggleston Artistic Trust

The exhibition features friends, musicians, actors and rarely seen images of Eggleston’s own relations. It provides a unique window on the artist’s home life, allowing visitors to see how public and private portraiture came together in Eggleston’s work. It also reveals, for the first time, the identities of many sitters who have until now remained anonymous.

William Eggleston, Untitled, 1969 - 70 (the artist's uncle, Ayden Schuyler Senior, with Jasper Staples, in Cassidy Bayou, Sumner, Mississippi). ©Eggleston Artistic Trust

Curator Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery says, “Few photographers alive today have had such a profound influence on the way photographs are made and seen as William Eggleston. His pictures are as fresh and exciting as they were when they first grabbed the public’s attention in the 1970s. There is nothing quite like the colour in an Eggleston photograph – radiant in their beauty, that get deep under the skin and linger in the imagination.”

William Eggleston, Untitled, c.1970 (Devoe Money in Jackson, Mississippi), c.1970 ©Eggleston Artistic Trust

until 23 October 2016
William Eggleston Potraits
curated by Phillip Prodger
with support of the artist and the Eggleston Artistic Trust
National Portrait Gallery
London

William Eggleston

Showed at NPG in London “William Eggleston Portraits” brings together over 100 works by the American photographer, renowned for his vivid, poetic and mysterious images.

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