Near Johnson City, East Tennessee
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dye imbibition print
Dimensions
image: 23 × 36 cm (9 1/16 × 14 3/16 in.) sheet: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ms. Mayda Colon Tsaknis)
Accession Number
2015.19.4381
Art Historical Context
William Eggleston's *Near Johnson City, East Tennessee* (1984) captures the quiet poetry of the American South through his signature color photography. This dye imbibition print—measuring 23 × 36 cm—showcases Eggleston's mastery of the medium, a labor-intensive process that yields extraordinarily rich, saturated hues and fine details. Renowned as a pioneer of fine-art color photography, Eggleston elevated mundane scenes to reveal profound visual beauty, challenging black-and-white photography's dominance in the art world. Taken in the rural landscapes of East Tennessee, the image likely evoke...
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...