Photographer William Eggleston Lives and Works in Memphis, Tennessee

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

ART
William Eggleston
A man of few words,
explores democratic
color photography
(The mundane life surrounding us
is filled with beauty and color, both
vivid and subtle!)

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1983-1986, Pigment print, 45 x 64 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches edition of 1 of 2, 2AP Signed in ink and numbered David Zwirner Gallery, New York London / davidzwirner.com

BIO

William Eggleston
Born 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee. Lives and works in Memphis, Tennessee. BIOGRAPHY
Born July 27, 1939 Born in Memphis, Tennessee
1957 Acquires his first camera, a Canon Rangefinder
1958 Acquires his first Leica camera
1959 Sees Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “The Decisive Moment” and Walker Evans’s “American Photographs”
1965 Begins to experiment with color transparency film
1967 Starts to use color negative film. Goes to New York and meets Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Diane
Arbus. Presents his work to John Szarkowski at The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974 Harry Lunn publishes the first portfolio of dye-transfer photographs, “14 Pictures.” Receives a Guggenheim
Fellowship. Appointed Lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Completes his “Los Alamos” project
1975 Receives a National Endowment for the Arts Photographer’s Fellowship
1976 The Museum of Modern Art exhibits work in first solo exhibition of color photographs accompanied by a
monograph, William Eggleston’s Guide. Commissioned by Rolling Stone magazine to photograph Plains,
Georgia before the election of President Jimmy Carter. Project becomes “Election Eve,” the first of the artist’s
books of original photographs published by Caldecot Chubb
1978 Appointed Researcher in Color Video at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge at the invitation of
Richard Leacock. Photographs the Gulf states on a commission from AT&T. Receives another award from the
National Endowment for the Arts. Visits Jamaica
1979 Chubb published three smaller volumes of original photographs, “Morals of Vision,” “Wedgwood Blue,” and
“Flowers.”
1980 Travels to Kenya with Caldecot Chubb and creates a body of work known as “The Streets Are Clean on
Jupiter.” Commissioned to produce the “Louisiana Project” and to photograph throughout the state
1982 Invited to photograph the set of John Huston’s film “Annie”
1983 Begins to photograph in Berlin, Salzburg, and Graz and titles the series “Kiss me Kracow.” Commissioned to
photograph the mansion of Elvis Presley in Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee
1986 Invited by director David Byrne to visit and photograph the making of his film “True Stories.” Commissioned
by the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee to photograph in Egypt
1988 Begins a series of color photographs of England he calls “English Rose”
1989 Photographs in the orange groves of the Transvaal, South Africa. Accepts one of 54 Master Photographers of
1960-1979 awards from The Photographic Society of Japan. Plays the role of musician Jerry Lee Lewis’s
father in the movie “Great Balls of Fire”
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1992 Travels to China, mainly photographing in Beijing. Eggleston Artistic Trust is founded
1993 Commissioned by Delta Pine and Land to photograph Scott, Mississippi
1996 Commissioned by Coca-Cola to photograph their plants in four cities in the U.S. Invited by producer Caldecot
Chubb to visit and photograph the making of the film “Eve’s Bayou.” Receives the University of Memphis
Distinguished Achievement Award
1999 Invited by director Gus Van Sant to visit and photograph the making of the film “Easter.” Invited by the J.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles to photograph the museum and its grounds. Also photographs religious
locations in Orange County, California
2000 Commissioned by Paramount Pictures to photograph studio lot in Hollywood, California. Commissioned by
the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain to photograph the American desert
2001 Travels to Japan and photographs Kyoto
2002 Travels extensively and photographs locations including Pasadena, California; the New Jersey Shore; Queens,
New York; St. Petersburg, Russia; and Tuscany, Italy
2003 Travels to and photographs the Niagara Falls area. Travels to Arles, France to attend Rencontres d’Arles and
meets Henri Cartier-Bresson. Accepts Gold Medal for Photography from The National Arts Club, New York
2004 Receives the Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography (ICP)
Infinity Awards. Travels to Hawaii and photographs with new panoramic format camera. Travels to Madrid to
accept 2004 PhotoEspaña Award. Travels to Clovis, New Mexico and photographs the city and Norman Petty
Recording Studios
2005 “William Eggleston In The Real World,” a documentary film on Eggleston by Michael Almereyda is
completed. Travels to Xilitla, Mexico to photograph Las Pozas. Longtime advisor and friend, Walter Hopps,
dies. Invited and travels to Tokyo to be guest judge at Canon’s New Cosmos Photography Contest
2007 “By the Ways: A Journey with William Eggleston,” a documentary film on Eggleston by Vincent
Gérard and Cédric Laty is released. Longtime advisor and friend, John Szarkowski, dies
2008 “Stranded in Canton” Eggleston’s film is released. W Magazine hosts a dinner at the Whitney Museum
of American Art to honor Eggleston
2009 Commissioned by Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain to photograph Paris. Kodachrome
films are discontinued
2015 Travels to Rio de Janeiro
2016 Aperture Foundation hosts a dinner at the Edison Ballroom to honor Eggleston
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Delta State College, Cleveland, Mississippi
University of Mississippi, Oxford
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue] The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston, The University of
Mississippi Museum, Oxford
William Eggleston: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London [itinerary: National Gallery of
Victoria, Melbourne] [catalogue] William Eggleston: Selections from the Wilson Centre for Photography, Portland Art Museum,
Oregon
2015 William Eggleston, a cor Americana, Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [catalogue] William Eggleston & Ernest C. Withers in Conversation, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,
Tennessee [two-person exhibition] 2014 William Eggleston’s Democratic Forest, Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, California [organized
by Sotheby’s to benefit the Cantor Center Acquisition Fund at Stanford University,
California] William Eggleston: From Black and White to Color, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris [part
of Le Mois de la Photo, Paris] [catalogue] 2013 At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York
William Eggleston, The Richard B. & Jeanne Donovan Fisher Gallery, Tate Modern, London
William Eggleston: At Zenith, Gagosian Gallery, New York [catalogue] William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
2012 William Eggleston: Before Color, Peder Lund, Oslo [itinerary: Nederlands Fotomuseum,
Rotterdam] William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills [catalogue] William Eggleston: New Dyes, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, California
William Eggleston: Troubled Waters, Hengesbach Gallery, Berlin
2011 William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville,
Tennessee
William Eggleston: Election Eve, Gagosian Gallery, Paris
William Eggleston/David Reed, Peder Lund, Oslo [two-person exhibition] 2010 William Eggleston: 21st Century, Cheim & Read, New York and Victoria Miro, London [two-part
exhibition] William Eggleston: 21st Century, SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tokyo
2009 William Eggleston: Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris [itinerary: ParisKyoto,
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg,
Sweden] [catalogue] William Eggleston-David Lynch: Fotografien, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich [two-person
exhibition] 2008 William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York [itinerary: Haus der Kunst, Munich; Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art] [catalogue] William Eggleston: L’oeil démocratique, Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure, France
2007 William Eggleston: Cadillac, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
William Eggleston: Portfolios, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
William Eggleston: Portraits 1974, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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William Eggleston: Portraits 1974, Studio Trisorio, Rome, Studio Trisorio, Naples, and
Photology, Milan, Italy [three-part exhibition] 2006 William Eggleston, Camera Work, Berlin
William Eggleston: Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Galerie du jour agnès b., Paris
William Eggleston: Spirit of Dunkerque, Lieu d’Art et Action contemporaine (LAAC),
Dunkerque, France [catalogue] William Eggleston: Stranded in Canton, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2005 William Eggleston, Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB) Gallery, Dallas
William Eggleston: Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Cheim & Read, New York
2004 William Eggleston, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, California
William Eggleston: Dust Bells, Victoria Miro, London
William Eggleston: Louisiana Project. Photographs 1981-1982, Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
William Eggleston: Precolor, Cheim & Read, New York
2003-2005 William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Museum Ludwig, Cologne [itinerary: Museu de Arte
Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto; The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and
Design, Oslo; Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; San Francisco Museum
of Modern Art; Albertina, Vienna; Dallas Museum of Art] [catalogue] 2003 William Eggleston: Cadillac Portfolio, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Chicago
William Eggleston: Graceland, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne
William Eggleston: Photographies récentes/Recent Photographs, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
William Eggleston: Pictures from the Seventies, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2002 Project Gallery: William Eggleston, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
William Eggleston: California 1999-2000, Sprüth Magers, Cologne [itinerary: Le Case D’Arte,
Milan] William Eggleston: Fotografier/Photographs, Galleri Riis, Oslo
2001 William Eggleston, Cheim & Read, New York
William Eggleston, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris [itinerary: Hayward Gallery,
London] [catalogue] William Eggleston, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
William Eggleston: Mostly California Desert Pictures 1999-2001, ROSEGALLERY, Santa
Monica, California
William Eggleston: Recent Work, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels
2000 William Eggleston, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
1999 William Eggleston: 70/90, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa Monica, California
William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles [exhibition
brochure] William Eggleston: Cadillac. Photographs 1966-1971, Cheim & Read, New York
1998 William Eggleston, Galerie 213 – Marion de Beaupré, Paris
William Eggleston, Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden [itinerary:
Kunsthallen Brandts, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark] [catalogue] William Eggleston: Morals of Vision, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
William Eggleston: Pictures from Eve’s Bayou, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
1997 William Eggleston: 10.D.70.V1 and 10.D.70.V2, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
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William Eggleston: Picture’s from Eve’s Bayou, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Santa
Monica, California
1995 William Eggleston: Four Portfolios, Art Museum of University of Memphis, Tennessee
1994 William Eggleston: From Graceland to Wasteland, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Scarabb Gallery, Cleveland
1993 Photographs by William Eggleston, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
William Eggleston, Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee
William Eggleston and William K. Greiner: Color Photographs, Contemporary Arts
Center, New Orleans [two-person exhibition] 1992 William Eggleston: Ancient and Modern, Barbican Art Gallery, London [itinerary: Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany;
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland] [two catalogues] William Eggleston: First Color 1967-1972, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
1991 Volumes of Photographs: Eggleston and Christenberry, Memphis Brooks Museum of
Art, Tennessee [two-person exhibition] 1990 William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1989 Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
The University of Mississippi Museum, Oxford
1988 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1987 Eggleston’s Egypt, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee [itinerary: Denver Art Museum,
Colorado] William Eggleston, Pace/MacGill, New York
1986 William Eggleston’s Early Black and White Photography, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,
Tennessee
William Eggleston, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1985 William Eggleston, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
William Eggleston: Elvis Presley Photographs, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
William Eggleston: New Orleans Project, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
William Eggleston: New Works from the Tennessee Project, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas
William Eggleston: Photographs from Miami, Bay Vista Photography Gallery, Florida
International University, Miami
William Eggleston: Recent Color Photographs, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1984 William Eggleston: Dye Transfer Photographs of Elvis Presley’s Home, Robert Miller Gallery,
New York
William Eggleston’s Graceland, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C. [itinerary: Graceland and
the South, Art Institute of Chicago] [artist’s portfolio] William Eggleston: Photographs of Graceland, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
[itinerary: Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama; James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles;
Aspen Museum of Art, Colorado] 1983 William Eggleston: Color Photographs from the American South, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London [itinerary: Arnolfini, Bristol, England] 6
William Eggleston: Kenia, Fotogalerie im Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
William Eggleston: Recent Color Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Werkstatt für Photographie, Berlin
1982 William Eggleston: 5 Projects, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
William Eggleston: Troubled Waters, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1981 William Eggleston: Photographs 1967-1978, Light Gallery, New York
1980 Lee Friedlander and William Eggleston, Atlanta Gallery of Photography [two-person exhibition] Nicholas Nixon and William Eggleston, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco [two-person exhibition] William Eggleston: Troubled Waters, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1979 William Eggleston, The Photographer’s Gallery, Melbourne
Volkhochschule, Berlin
1978 Nicholas Nixon and William Eggleston, Cronin Gallery, Houston [two-person exhibition] William Eggleston: Color Photographs, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
William Eggleston: Elective Eve, Laguna Gloria at First Federal, Austin, Texas
William Eggleston: Photographs, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1977 William Eggleston: Color Photographs, 1966-1977, Castelli Graphics, New York
William Eggleston: Dye Transfer Photographs, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
William Eggleston: Election Eve, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. [catalogue] William Eggleston and William Christenberry: Color Photographs, Morgan Gallery,
Shawnee Mission, Kansas [two-person exhibition] Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago
Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1976 Color Photographs by William Eggleston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary:
Seattle Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Frederick S. Wight Art
Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; Reed College, Portland, Oregon;
University of Maryland, College Park] Photographs by William Eggleston, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
1975 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1974 Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 I still believe in miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden
Edinburgh
The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip, Crystal Bridges Museum of American
Art, Bentonville, Arkansas [itinerary: Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas] [organized by
Aperture Foundation, New York] [catalogue] The Rebellious Image, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany [forthcoming] Seeing Things, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Shrines to Speed: Art and the Automobile, From the Postwar to the Postmodern, Leila Heller
Gallery, New York
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [itinerary: Speed Art Museum, Louisville,
Kentucky] [catalogue] Still Life/Work Life, Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden [catalogue] The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
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Angeles [itinerary: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut;
Portland Museum of Art, Maine] [catalogue] 2015 America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication] Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, England [itinerary: Tate
Liverpool, England] [catalogue] The Magic Medium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2014 American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Nova Southeastern University Art
Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida [catalogue] Edward Hopper and Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Eyes Wide Open!: 100 Years of Leica Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Haus der
Photografie [catalogue] Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague [catalogue] Passing Through, ROSEGALLERY, Santa Monica, California
2013 Everyday America: Photographs from the Berman Collection, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Into the Light: Photographs from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art,
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
Photography, GALLERY TARGET, Tokyo [itinerary: Aperture Foundation, New York] 2012 American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
[catalogue] Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [itinerary: Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio] [catalogue] At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, Barbican Art Gallery, London
[catalogue] Photography from the Museum Collection, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco
[catalogue] Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2011 Atget and Contemporary Photography, Leslie Feely Fine Art, New York
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
[itinerary: Museo del Novecento, Milan; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin] [catalogue] Food for Thought: A Group Exhibition, Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs, The Morgan
Library & Museum, New York [catalogue] Photography Calling!, Sprengel Museum Hannover [catalogue] September 11, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York [catalogue] The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota [itinerary:
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Ackland Art
Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina] [catalogue] 2010 Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
on Sea, England [catalogue] On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans, Robert Lehman Art Center, Brooks School, North
Andover, Massachusetts [catalogue] Pioneers of Color: Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, William Eggleston, Edwynn Houk Gallery,
New York [itinerary: American Pioneers of Color: Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz,
William Eggleston, Galerie Edwynn Houk Zur Stockeregg, Zurich] Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio [itinerary:
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey] [catalogue] 8
2009 1968-69: 40 Years Later, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York
America, Beirut Art Center
Años 70: Fotografía y Vida Cotidiana/70s: Photography and Everyday Life, Fernán Gómez
Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid [itinerary: Museo d’arte della Provincia di Nuoro
(MAN), Italy; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville] [catalogue] Edward Hopper & Company, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco [catalogue] Mockingbird, Brief Gallery, Nashville
2008 IMPLANT, UBS Art Gallery, New York [organized by The Horticultural Society of New York] Pictures in Series: Multiple Visions and Sequential Imagery, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long
Island City
SIGN/AGE: Part Two, Lost in the Supermarket, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York
Vivid Vernacular: William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker Evans, The Menil
Collection, Houston
2007 Easy Rider: Road Trips through America, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
On the Wall: Aperture ’05-’06, Aperture Gallery, New York
People Take Pictures of Each Other…, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
Second View, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen Magdeburg, Germany
What does the jellyfish want? Artists & Photographs, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2006 A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu. Farben, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen
Magdeburg, Germany [catalogue] The Age of Innocence, Photographs Do Not Bend (PDNB) Gallery, Dallas
Brighton Photo Biennial 2006: Nothing Personal, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, England
[catalogue] Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
Las Pozas: Photographs of a Surrealist Garden in Xilitla, Mexico, Texas Gallery, Houston
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Seventy-five at 75: Selections from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection at the
Henry Art Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Summer Group Exhibition, Southside Gallery, Oxford, Mississippi
Sus Ojos les Delatan: Colección de Lola Garrido/Their Eyes Betray Them: Collection of Lola
Garrido, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona [catalogue] Tendenzen Internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany
Tiefenschärfe/Depth of Field, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany [catalogue] Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los
Angeles [catalogue] William Eggleston, James Welling, Stephen Wilks, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2005-2009 Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
City [itinerary: Couvent des Cordeliers, Paris; C/O Berlin Foundation; Real Jardín
Botánico, Madrid; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; Mole Antonelliana,
Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin; Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; Manege,
Moscow; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing] [catalogue] 2005 Bilanz in zwei Akten: Collection Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Kunstverein Hannover
[catalogue] Colour after Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London [catalogue] Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art
People, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
La photographie à l’épreuve, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes and
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Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France
Superstars, Kunsthalle Wien and Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Vienna [catalogue] Surface, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Il Teatro dell’Arte/The Theatre of Art, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Times Two, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
2004 12 from Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., [itinerary: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh] [catalogue] Dog Days of Summer, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside
Illusions of Innocence: The Child in Modern Photography, Frist Center for the Visual Arts,
Nashville [catalogue] Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present. Highlights from the
Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
[organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York] [catalogue] The Nude: Ideal and Reality, from Neoclassicism to Today, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
[catalogue] Picturing the South, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York
Seen at MoMA (Part II): Photographs seen at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Kicken
Berlin
Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York
Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York [catalogue] 2003 Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Cold Play: Set 1 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland [catalogue] Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London
[itinerary: Museum Ludwig, Cologne] [catalogue] Jede Fotografie Ein Bild: Die Siemens Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich [catalogue] The Men’s Room, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Oases: A Group Show of Photography, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Pretty, as a picture, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus, J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles
Thinking with Blood: Conflict and Culture in the American South, Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Richmond [itinerary: Hite Art Institute, University of
Louisville, Kentucky; Tubman African American Museum, Macon, Georgia; Asheville
Art Museum, North Carolina; Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York] [catalogue] Time Frame: Impressions of American Social and Cultural Roots, Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2002 Contemporary American Photography, 1970-2000: From the Collection of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul [catalogue] documenta 11, Kassel [catalogue] Larry Clark, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand: Aus dem Bestand des
Museum Folkwang/From the Collection of Museum Folkwang, Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany
Opportunity, Jay Grimm Gallery, New York
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [catalogue] 2001 Amerikanische Fotografie ca. 1970, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Focus on Photography, The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts,
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Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, England [itinerary:
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C.] [catalogue] Revisited: Aspects of American Color Photography, Kicken Berlin
Settings and Players: Theatrical ambiguity in American photography, White Cube, London
[itinerary: Old Town Hall, Prague] [catalogue] 2000 100 for 2000: The Century of Photoart, Photology, Bologna [catalogue] Desert, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris [itinerary: Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona;
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville] [catalogue] Drive: Power, Progress, Desire, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
[catalogue] How you look at it: Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts/Photographs of the 20th Century, Sprengel
Museum Hannover [itinerary: Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie,
Frankfurt] [part of Expo 2000 Hannover] [catalogue] 1999 3 Folios: William Eggleston, CADILLAC; Bernard Faucon, LE TEMPS D’ARANT; Man Ray,
ELECTRICITE, Carrboro Gallery, North Carolina
The Full Monty, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Summertime, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
1998 Developing Illusions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1997 About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Blind Spot, Coming of Age: An exhibition to benefit The Family Academy, White Columns, New
York
Florescence: The Arts in Bloom, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Hope Photographs, The National Arts Club, New York
1996 Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
1995 Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives: Rethinking Modernism, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography [catalogue] Recent Acquisitions (Photography), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Seeing Things: Photographs from 1984-1995, André Emmerich, New York
1994 Gesture and Pose: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Collection, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
One Hundred Years of Street Photography, Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio
1993 Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Flora and Fauna, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
In Camera, The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographers Who Created a New Age, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
[catalogue] 1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue] 1990 Photography Until Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue] 1988 Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Permanent Collection of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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1985 American Images: Photography 1945-1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London [catalogue] New Color/New Work: Eighteen Photographic Essays, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
[itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago] [catalogue published in 1984] 1984 Color Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983 Subjective Vision: The Lucinda W. Bunnen Collection of Photography, High Museum of Art,
Atlanta [catalogue] 1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
[itinerary: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, Rochester,
New York] [catalogue] Slices of Time: California Landscape Photography, 1860-1880 and 1960-1980, Oakland Museum
of California [itinerary: Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles] [catalogue] Still Life: Photographs from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Target III, in Sequence: Photographic Sequences from the Target Collection of American
Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [catalogue] 1981 The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
[itinerary: International Center of Photography, New York] 1980 American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston [catalogue] The Imaginary Photo Museum, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne [catalogue] Nuages, Galerie de Photographie de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
La Photographie en Couleur dans l’Art Américain, Institut d’art contemporain,
Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Southeastern Graphics Invitational, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina [catalogue] Zeitgenössische Amerikanische Farbphotographie/Contemporary American Color Photography,
Kicken Berlin
1979 American Photography of the 70s, Art Institute of Chicago
Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California [catalogue] Auto-Icons, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition brochure] One of a Kind: Recent Polaroid Color Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [itinerary:
deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Minneapolis Institute
of Art, Minnesota; University of Arizona Student Union Exhibitions Hall, Tucson; Los
Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.;
Denver Art Museum; Art Institute of Chicago] [catalogue] Photographie als Kunst, 1879-1979, Tiroler Landesmuseen, Innsbruck, Austria
Ten from ‘Mirror and Windows’, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco
1978 23 Photographers, 23 Directions, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England [catalogue] Amerikanische Landschaftsphotographie, 1860-1978: eine Ausstellung der Neuen Sammlung
München, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich [catalogue] By the Side of the Road, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire [catalogue] Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York [catalogue] Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
[itinerary: Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri; Grey Art Gallery, New York University;
Seattle Art Museum; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California; High Museum of Art,
Atlanta] [catalogue] The Quality of Presence, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C. [catalogue] 12
1977 10 Photographes Contemporains/Tendances Actuelles Aux Etats-Unis, Galerie Zabriskie, Paris
Contemporary American Photographic Works, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [itinerary: Lowe
Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago] [catalogue] 1976 Aspects of American Photography, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis [catalogue] 1975 14 American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art [itinerary: Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, California; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas] [catalogue] Color Photography: Inventors and Innovators, 1850-1975, Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Connecticut [catalogue] 1974 Art Now 74: A Celebration of the American Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts,
Washington, D.C. [catalogue] 1972 Third Invitational, Corcoran Photography Workshop, Washington, D.C.
MONOGRAPHS & SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2016 William Eggleston: Portraits. Texts by Sofia Coppola and Phillip Prodger. Interview with the
artist by Phillip Prodger. National Portrait Gallery, London (exh. cat.)
William Eggleston: Selections from The Democratic Forest. Text by Alexander Nemerov. David
Zwirner Books, New York and Steidl, Göttingen, Germany (exh. cat.)
2015 William Eggleston, a cor Americana. Texts by David Byrne, Geoff Dyer, Thyago Nogueira, John
Szarkowski, and Richard B. Woodward. Instituto Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(exh. cat.)
William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest. Edited by Mark Holborn and William Eggleston III.
Text by Eudora Welty. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
2014 William Eggleston: From Black and White to Color. Texts by Agnès Sire and Thomas Weski.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris (exh. cat.)
2013 William Eggleston: At Zenith. Edited and text by William Eggleston III. Steidl, Göttingen,
Germany (exh. cat.)
2012 Photographic Masterworks by William Eggleston. Christie’s, New York
William Eggleston: Los Alamos. Text by Mark Holborn. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills (exh.
cat.)
William Eggleston: Los Alamos Revisited. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany [revised and expanded
edition; originally published in 2003] 2011 William Eggleston: Chromes. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
2010 William Eggleston: Before Color. Edited by Chris Burnside, John Cheim, Winston Eggleston,
Howard Read, and Thomas Weski. Text by Dave Hickey. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
William Eggleston: For Now. Texts by Michael Almereyda, Kristine McKenna, Greil Marcus, and
Amy Taubin. Interview with the artist by Lloyd Fonvielle. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa
Fe, New Mexico
2009 William Eggleston: Paris. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris and Steidl, Göttingen,
Germany (exh. cat.) [limited edition of 100] 2008 William Eggleston: Democratic Camera. Photographs and Video, 1961-2008. Texts by Stanley
Booth, Donna De Salvo, Tina Kukielski, Elisabeth Sussman, Adam D. Weinberg, Adam
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Welch, and Thomas Weski. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Haus der
Kunst, Munich (exh. cat.)
William Eggleston: Stranded in Canton. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007 William Eggleston: 5 x 7. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 William Eggleston: Spirit of Dunkerque. Texts by Vincent Gérard and Jean-Pierre Rehm. Lieu
d’Art et Action contemporaine (LAAC), Dunkerque, France (exh. cat.)
2003 William Eggleston: Los Alamos. Text by Thomas Weski. Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Scalo,
Zuirch (exh. cat.)
2002 William Eggleston’s Guide. Text by John Szarkowski. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
[revised edition; originally published in 1976] 2001 William Eggleston. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (exh. cat.)
1999 William Eggleston: 2 1/4. Text by Bruce Wagner. Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, New Mexico
William Eggleston and the Color Tradition. Texts by Mikka Gee and Judith Keller. J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles (exh. bro.)
William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998. Edited by Gunilla Knape. Texts by Walter
Hopps and Thomas Weski. Interview with the artist by Ute Eskildsen. Hasselblad Center,
Gothenburg, Sweden (exh. cat.)
1994 William Eggleston: Horses and Dogs. Text and interview with the artist by Richard B. Woodward.
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1992 William Eggleston. Text by Henning Hansen. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk,
Denmark (exh. cat.)
William Eggleston: Ancient and Modern. Text by Mark Holborn. Random House, New York (exh.
cat.)
1990 William Eggleston: Faulkner’s Mississippi. Text by Willie Morris. Oxmoor House, Birmingham,
Alabama
1989 William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest. Edited by Mark Holburn. Texts by William Eggleston
and Eudora Welty. Doubleday, New York and Martin Secker & Warburg, London
1977 William Eggleston: Election Eve. Text by Jane Livingston. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. (exh. cat.)
1976 William Eggleston’s Guide. Text by John Szarkowski. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(exh. cat.)
SELECTED BOOKS & GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2016 Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. Edited by Miranda Lash and
Trevor Schoonmaker. Texts by Diego Camposeco, Mel Chin, Miranda Lash, Trevor
Schoonmaker et al. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
(exh. cat.)
Still Life/Work Life. Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden (exh. cat.)
The Thrill of the Chase: The Wagstaff Collection of Photographs. Texts by Paul Martineau,
Weston Naef, and Eugenia Parry. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
2015 Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions. Edited by Glenn Ligon. Texts by Alex Farquharson and
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Francesco Manacorda. Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Publishing, London (exh.
cat.)
Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection. Edited by Dana Miller. Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York (exh. pub.)
2014 American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Text by Bonnie Clearwater. Nova
Southeastern University Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (exh. cat.)
Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography. Texts by Gabriel Bauret, Hans-Michael
Koetzle et al. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany (exh. cat.)
Only the Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited. Text by Michal Nanoru. Galerie
Rudolfinum, Prague (exh. cat.)
The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip. Text by David Campany. Aperture,
New York
2012 American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(exh. cat.)
Blues for Smoke. Texts by George E. Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Bennett Simpson et al. Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and DelMonico Books/Prestel Verlag, New York (exh.
cat.)
Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s. Edited by Kate Bush. Texts by Gerry
Badger and Kate Bush. Barbican Art Gallery, London (exh. cat.)
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection. Texts by Julian Cox and Kevin D. Moore.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (exh. cat.)
2011 Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection. Texts by Mary Cremin,
Matthew S. Witkovsky et al. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (exh. cat.)
Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper Collection of Drawings and Photographs. Texts by
Jordan Bear, Rhoda Eitel-Porter et al. Morgan Library & Museum, New York (exh. cat.)
Photography Calling! Texts by Inka Schube and Thomas Weski. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany (exh.
cat.)
September 11. Text by Alexander Dumbadze, Peter Eleey, Alexander Kluge et al. MoMA PS1,
Long Island City, New York (exh. cat.)
The Spectacular of Vernacular. Texts by Darsie Alexander, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Andy
Sturdevant et al. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (exh. cat.)
2010 Myth, Manners and Memory: Photographers of the American South. Edited by Celia Davies and
Gordon MacDonald. Photoworks, Brighton, England (exh. cat.)
On the Road: A Legacy of Walker Evans. Text by Belinda Rathbone. Robert Lehman Art Center,
Brooks School, North Andover, Massachusetts (exh. cat.)
Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970-1980. Texts by James Crump, Kevin Moore, and
Leo Rubinfien. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany (exh. cat.)
2009 Años 70: Fotografía y Vida Cotidiana/70s: Photography and Everyday Life. La Fábrica, Madrid
(exh. cat.)
Edward Hopper & Company. Edited by Frish Brandt and Jeffrey Fraenkel. Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco (exh. cat.)
2007 A Noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu. Farben. Texts by Uwe Gellner and Annegret Laabs.
Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany (exh. cat.)
2006 2006 Brighton Photo Biennial. Edited by David Chandler, John Gill, and Gilane Tawadros. Texts
by Gilane Tawadros and Gary Younge. Photoworks and Brighton Photo Biennial,
England (exh. cat.)
Sus Ojos les Delatan/Colección de Lola Garrido/Their Eyes Betray Them: Collection of
Lola Garrido. Texts by Christina Peri Rossi and Enrique Vila-Matas. Fundació Foto
Colectania, Barcelona (exh. cat.)
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Tiefenschärfe: Bilder vom Menschen aus den Fotosammlungen des Institut d’art contemporainCollection
Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne-Lyon und des Musée d’art moderne de Saint-
Étienne Métropole. Edited by Fritz Emslander. Wienand, Cologne and Staatliche
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (exh. cat.)
Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection. Edited by Judith Keller and
Anne Lacoste. Texts by Kenneth A. Breisch, Bruce Wagner, and Colin Westerbeck. J.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
2005 Bilanz in zwei Akten: Sammlung Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung. Texts by Stephan Berg,
Thomas Deecke, Monika Hallbaum, Heinz Liesbrock, Ulrike Scchneider, Dieter
Schwarz, Thomas Weski, and Ludwig Zerull. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf (exh. cat.)
Colour After Klein: Re-Thinking Colour in Modern and Contemporary Art. Texts by Jane Alison,
Nuit Banai, Kathleen Madden, and Alona Pardo. Barbican Art Gallery and Black Dog
Publishing, London (exh. cat.)
Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces. Edited by Ronald Ariel Chammah and Serge Toubiana.
Texts by Elfriede Jelinek, Susan Sontag, and Serge Toubiana. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.,
New York (exh. cat.)
Superstars: das Prinzip der Prominenz von Warhol bis Madonna. Text by Ingried Brugger. Hatje
Cantz, Ostfildren, Germany (exh. cat.)
2004 Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art. Texts by Philip Brookman, Bill
Clinton, Jacquelyn Days Serwer et al. Merrell, London and Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. (exh. cat.)
Illusions of Innocence: The Child in Modern Photography. Text by Mark Scala. Frist Center for
the Visual Arts, Nashville (exh. cat.)
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present. Highlights from The Museum
of Modern Art. Texts by David Elliott, Wendy Weitman, and Deborah Wye. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (exh. cat.)
The Nude: Ideal and Reality, from Neoclassicism to Today. Edited by Peter Weiermair. Text by
Paolo Fabbri. ArtificioSkira, Florence (exh. cat.)
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection. Texts by Jennifer Blessings, Kirsten
Hoving, and Ralph Rugoff. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (exh. cat.)
2003 Cold Play: Set 1 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur/Set 1 from the Fotomuseum
Winterthur Collection. Texts by Nobuyoshi Araki, Therese Seeholzer, and Urs Stahel.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph. Texts by David Campany,
Emma Dexter, Susanne Lange, and Thomas Weski. Tate Publishing, London (exh. cat.)
Jede Fotografie ein Bild: Siemens Fotosammlung. Texts by Ulrich Bischoff, Inka Graeve
Ingelmann, and Thomas Weski. Pinakothek-DuMont, Cologne (exh. cat.)
Thinking with Blood: Conflict and Culture in the American South. Edited by Craig Bunting.
Running Film, Inc., Kuttawa, Kentucky (exh. cat.)
2002 Contemporary American Photography 1970-2000: from the Collection of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Texts by Lee Kyung-ryul and Douglas R. Nickel. Samsung
Museum of Modern Art, Seoul (exh. cat.)
documenta 11, Platform 5: Exhibition. Text by Werner Maschmann. Museum Fridericianum,
Kassel (exh. cat.)
documenta 11, Platform 5: Short Guide. Texts by Carlos Basualdo, Okwui Enwezor, Jean Fisher,
Boris Groys, Sarat Maharaj, Abdou Maliq Simone, Ute Meta Bauer, Mark Nash, Molly
Nesbit, Angelika Nollert, and Sverker Sorlin. Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (exh. pub.)
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. Texts
by Andy Grundberg and Sylvia Wolf. Prestel Verlag, Munich and Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (exh. cat.)
2001 Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950. Texts by Kelly Brougher and Russell Ferguson.
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England and Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany (exh.
cat.)
Settings and Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography. White Cube, London (exh.
cat.)
2000 100 for 2000: The Century of Photoart. Text by Davide Faccioli. Photology, Milan (exh. cat.)
The Desert. Text by Wilfred Thesiger. Thames & Hudson, New York (exh. cat.)
Drive: Power, Progress, Desire. Texts by Gregory Burke and Hanna Scott. Govett-Brewster Art
Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (exh. cat.)
How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century. Texts by Heinz Liesbrock and Thomas
Weski. Distributed Art Publishers, New York (exh. cat.)
1995 Objects, Faces and Anti-Narratives: Rethinking Modernism. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography (exh. cat.)
1993 Photographers Who Created a New Age: 1960s-70s. Tokyo Metropolitan Culture Foundation and
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (exh. cat.)
1991 Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort. Text by Peter Galassi. The Museum of Modern Art,
New York (exh. cat.)
1990 Photography Until Now. Text by John Szarkowski. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh.
cat.)
1986 True Stories. Text by David Byrne. Penguin, New York
1985 American Images: Photography 1945-1980. Text by Peter Turner. Penguin Books,
Harmondsworth, England and Viking Books, New York (exh. cat.)
1984 New Color/New Work: Eighteen Photographic Essays. Text by Sally Eauclaire. Abbeville Press,
New York (exh. cat.)
1983 Subjective Vision: The Lucinda W. Bunnen Collection of Photographs. Texts by Lucinda Bunnen,
A.D. Coleman, and Kelly Morris. High Museum of Art, Atlanta (exh. cat.)
1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography. Text by John Upton. International Museum of
Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York (exh. cat.)
Slices of Time: California Landscapes 1860-1880 and 1960-1980. Texts by Ted Hedgpeth and
Therese Thau Heyman. Oakland Museum of California (exh. cat.)
Target III, in sequence: Photographic Sequences from the Target Collection of American
Photography. Texts by Leroy Searle and Anne Tucker. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(exh. cat.)
1980 American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Text by Renato Danese.
Casini Press, Washington, D.C. (exh. cat.)
The Imaginary Photo Museum: with 457 Photographs from 1836 to the Present. Texts by Helmut
Gernsheim, L. Fritz and Renate Gruber, Beaumont Newhall et al. Harmony Books, New
York (exh. cat.)
Southeastern Graphics Invitational, 1980: Photographs. The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North
Carolina (exh. cat.)
1979 Attitudes: Photography in the 1970s. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California (exh. cat.)
Auto-Icons. Whitney Museum of American Art (exh. bro.)
One of a Kind: Recent Polaroid Color Photography. Texts by Eugenia Parry and Belinda
Rathbone. D.R. Godine, Boston (exh. cat.)
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1978 23 Photographers, 23 Directions. Text by Valerie Lloyd. The Gallery for the Arts Council of
Great Britain, Liverpool, England (exh. cat.)
Amerikanische Landschaftsphotographie, 1860-1978: eine Ausstellung der Neuen Sammlung
München. Texts by Beatrix Hauser Medinger and Regina A. Trapp. Die Neue Sammlung,
Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Munich (exh. cat.)
By the Side of the Road. Text by James V. Galgano. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New
Hampshire (exh. cat.)
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. Text by John Szarkowski. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh. cat.)
Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff. Gray Press, New York (exh. cat.)
The Quality of Presence. Lunn Gallery, Graphics International, Washington, D.C. (exh.
cat.)
1977 Contemporary American Photographic Works. Texts by Lewis Baltz and John Upton. Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston (exh. cat.)
1976 Aspects of American Photography, 1976. Text by Robert Adams. University of Missouri-St. Louis
(exh. cat.)
1975 14 American Photographers. Texts by Renato Danese and John R. Gossage. Baltimore Museum
of Art, Maryland (exh. cat.)
Color Photography: Inventors and Innovators, 1850-1975. Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Connecticut (exh. cat.)
ARTIST’S PORTFOLIOS & BOOKS
2004 William Eggleston: Dust Bells. Eggleston Artistic Trust [20 dye transfer prints in two volumes;
edition of 15] 2002 William Eggleston: Los Alamos. Eggleston Artistic Trust [75 dye transfer prints; edition of 7] 2000 William Eggleston: Coca-Cola. Eggleston Artistic Trust [12 chromogenic color photographs;
edition of 8] 1999 William Eggleston: Cadillac. Eggleston Artistic Trust in association with Cheim & Read, New
York [12 chromogenic color photographs; edition of 15] 1998 William Eggleston: Pictures from Eve’s Bayou. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica,
California in association with Caldecot Chubb, New York [6 dye transfer prints; edition
of 6] 1996 William Eggleston: 10 D.70.V1. Eggleston Artistic Trust and PhotoArt GmbH, Hamburg,
Germany [10 dye transfer prints; edition of 15] William Eggleston: 10 D.70.V2. Eggleston Artistic Trust and PhotoArt GmbH, Hamburg,
Germany [10 dye transfer prints; edition of 15] 1991 William Eggleston. Jay Crouse, Sarasota, Florida [10 dye transfer prints; edition of 9] 1984 William Eggleston’s Graceland. Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C. [11 dye transfer prints;
edition of 31] 1981 William Eggleston: Southern Suite. Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C. [10 dye transfer prints;
edition of 12] 1980 William Eggleston: Troubled Waters. Caldecot Chubb, New York [15 dye transfer prints; edition
18
of 30] 1979 William Eggleston: Seven. Caldecot Chubb, New York [7 chromogenic coupler prints; edition of
3] William Eggleston: Wedgwood Blue. Poem by William Butler Yeats. Caldecot Chubb, New York
[15 chromogenic coupler prints; edition of 20] 1978 William Eggleston: Flowers. Caldecot Chubb, New York [12 chromogenic coupler prints; edition
of 15] William Eggleston: Morals of Vision. Caldecot Chubb, New York [8 color-coupler prints; edition
of 15] 1977 William Eggleston: Election Eye. Preface by Lloyd Fonvielle. Caldecot Chubb, New York [100
color-coupler prints in two volumes; edition of 5] 1974 William Eggleston: 14 Pictures. Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C. [14 dye transfer prints; edition
of 15] SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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7, 2008) [ill.] [online] Kilston, Lyra and Quinn Latimer. “William Eggleston.” Modern Painters (November 2008): 16
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(January 2003) [ill.] [online] Hopps, Walter. “William Eggleston: Memphis Bungalows & Night Portraits.” Grand Street no. 72
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19, 67 [cover] [ill.] Tartt, Donna. “Portfolio: William Eggleston.” Artforum 40, no. 2 (October 2001): 135-139 [ill.] “William Eggleston.” Blind Spot no. 19 (September 2001) [cover] [ill.] 2000 “The Lot.” The New York Times Magazine (November 12, 2000) [ill.] 1999 Booth, Stanley. “William Eggleston.” salon.com (September 7, 1998) [online] 1998 Hynum, Rick. “Eggleston exhibit shows ‘real life through the eyes of a genius.’” djournal.com
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[ill.] “William Eggleston.” Grand Street no. 49 (Summer 1994): 49-63 [ill.] 1989 Hagen, Charles. “An interview with William Eggleston.” Aperture (Summer 1989): 40-45 [cover] [ill.] [interview] 1984 Holborn, Mark. “Color Codes.” Aperture (Fall 1984): 8-15 [cover] [ill.] Schneider, Peter. “The Berlin Series.” Aperture (Fall 1984): 60-75 [ill.] 1983 Sischy, Ingrid. “Matters of Record.” Artforum 21, no. 6 (February 1983): 44-49 [cover] [ill.] ARTIST’S VIDEOS, ALBUM COVERS, & FILM SCREENINGS
2010 CD cover art for Transference, performed and recorded by Spoon
2007 EP cover art for Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band, performed and recorded by Joanna
Newsom, Kevin Baker, Dan Cantrell, Ryan Francesconi, and Neal Morgan
2006 Featured in Cat Power’s Lived in Bars music video
2005 CD and album cover art for Tanglewood Numbers, performed and recorded by Silver Jews
2003 CD cover art for Soul Serenade, performed and recorded by The Derek Trucks Band
2002 CD cover art for The Big Time, performed and recorded by Robin Holcomb
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2001 CD cover art for Bleed American, performed and recorded by Jimmy Eat World
1994 Album cover art for Out But Don’t Give Up, performed and recorded by Primal Scream
1974 Album cover art for Radio City, performed and recorded by Big Star
AWARDS
2016 Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication,
République Française (Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic)
Honor, The Aperture Foundation, New York
2004 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, New York
PhotoEspaña Award, Madrid
2003 Gold Medal for Photography, The National Arts Club, New York
1998 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Gothenburg, Sweden
1996 University of Memphis Distinguished Achievement Award, Tennessee
1989 54 Master Photographers of 1960-1979 Award, The Photographic Society of Japan
1978 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts in Photography, Washington, D.C.
1975 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts in Photography, Washington, D.C.
SELECTED MUSEUM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seattle Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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