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“I never know if I’m coming to the end of everything I want to know about the world, or just the beginning,” ponders William Eggleston at the age of 77. Hailed as the pioneer of colour photography, William Eggleston has remained loyal to the medium for 60 years, creating endearing photographs despite his atypical subject matter. The result provokes a memory-inducing sigh among viewers the world over, images that resonate but remain otherworldly.

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Big Timber, Montana. All Photos © Stephen Shore Stephen Shore fondly recalls his Polaroid SX-70. Shore, known for color images of everyday America, in books like Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, loved the immediacy of the SX-70. “Whatever you observed and chose to picture was right there,” he says of that ingenious little device.

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William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant as a Carver story. Currently on display in The National Portrait Gallery is one of his most expansive exhibitions of 100 works dating from the 1960s to the present day. Eggleston’s work, aside from hugely...

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This three-volume publication draws on the mass of outtakes from William Eggleston’s 1976 MoMA exhibition to explore his luminous approach to color photography.

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The 2005 documentary William Eggleston in the Real World has been restored and re-released on home media. Far from a normal biography, it often plays like a homage to the photographer's work.

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