Untitled
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 25.75 × 38.1 cm (10 1/8 × 15 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 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
Accession Number
2015.19.4272
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...