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Memphis
William Eggleston American
Not on view
William Eggleston’s 1976 show at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the landmark book that accompanied it, William Eggleston’s Guide, almost single-handedly ushered color photography into the fine-art pantheon. Before then, most old-guard photographers and the art museums that supported and collected their work considered color too cliché, too commercial, or both. Memphis is one of the many seemingly casual, lush color views Eggleston made of the suburban built environment near his Tennessee home. Viewed from a child’s vantage point, a well-loved, rusty tricycle becomes a mint-condition Mustang with mag wheels that is styled up, fast, and liberating.
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