Almost at the Mississippi River, Dyersburg, Tennessee
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View on museum website →Medium
Ektacolor print
Dimensions
image: 18.4 x 28 cm (7 1/4 x 11 in.) sheet: 27.8 x 36 cm (10 15/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and David Robinson
Accession Number
1995.35.12
About the Artist
William Eggleston
William Eggleston (born 1939) is an American photographer widely credited with transforming the status of color photography and fundamentally changing how photographers and institutions think about everyday American life as a subject for serious art. Born in Memphis, Tennessee, and raised in Sumner, Mississippi, he grew up steeped in the culture of the American South, a world whose vernacular text...