William Eggleston, was born on July 27,1939 and is an American photographer.
19 Facts About William Eggleston
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William Eggleston is widely credited with increasing recognition of color photography as a legitimate artistic medium.
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William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi.
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William Eggleston's father was an engineer and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge.
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At the age of 15, William Eggleston was sent to the Webb School, a boarding establishment.
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Nevertheless, William Eggleston noted that he never felt like an outsider.
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William Eggleston attended Vanderbilt University for a year, Delta State College for a semester, and the University of Mississippi for about five years, but did not complete any degree.
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William Eggleston was introduced to abstract expressionism at Ole Miss by visiting painter Tom Young.
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William Eggleston's early photographic efforts were inspired by the work of Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank, and by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's book, The Decisive Moment.
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In 1970, Eggleston's friend William Christenberry introduced him to Walter Hopps.
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William Eggleston taught at Harvard in 1973 and 1974, and it was during these years that he discovered dye-transfer printing; he was examining the price list of a photographic lab in Chicago when he read about the process.
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At Harvard, William Eggleston prepared his first portfolio, entitled 14 Pictures.
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Around the time of his 1976 MoMA exhibition, William Eggleston was introduced to Viva, the Andy Warhol "superstar", with whom he began a long relationship.
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Also in the 1970s, William Eggleston experimented with video, producing several hours of roughly edited footage William Eggleston calls Stranded in Canton.
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William Eggleston worked with filmmakers, photographing the set of John Huston's film Annie and documenting the making of David Byrne's film True Stories.
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In 2017, an album of William Eggleston's music was released, Musik.
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William Eggleston's photographs were used for the front and back covers of the CD release of long-time friend and fellow photographer Terry Manning's album Christopher Idylls.
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In 2006, an William Eggleston image was used as both the cover to Primal Scream's single "Country Girl" and the paperback edition of Ali Smith's novel The Accidental.
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William Eggleston's photos appear on Tanglewood Numbers by the Silver Jews, Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band by Joanna Newsom, Transference by Spoon and Delta Kream by the Black Keys.