William Eggleston

William Eggleston (bɛ dɔɣi o la Anashaara goli July 27, 1939) ka o nyɛ America anfooni yaara. O nyɛla ŋun yaari anfooninima ni ko'balibu. Eggleston's bukunima shɛŋa n-nyɛ William Eggleston's Guide (1976) mini The Democratic Forest (1989).

William Eggleston
Tuma

Eggleston daa deei Guggenheim Fellowship yuuni 1974, ka deei Hasselblad Award yuuni 1998, ka daa lahi deei Honorary Fellowship din nyɛ Royal Photographic Society dini yuuni 2003.

Publications

• Election Eve. New York City: Caldecot Chubb, 1977. Artist book. Two volumes. Edition of five copies.
  • Göttingen: Steidl; 2017. ISBN 978-3-95829-266-6. One volume.
• Morals of Vision. New York City: Caldecot Chubb, 1978. Artist book. Edition of fifteen copies.
  • Göttingen: Steidl; 2018. ISBN 978-3-95829-390-8.
• Flowers. New York City: Caldecot Chubb, 1978. Artist book. Edition of fifteen copies.
  • Göttingen: Steidl; 2019. ISBN 978-3-95829-389-2.
• William Eggleston's Guide. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1976. ISBN 978-0-87070-317-1.
• The Democratic Forest.
  • London: Secker & Warburg, 1989. With an introduction by Eudora Welty and an afterword by Eggleston and Mark Holborn.
  • New York: Doubleday, 1989. ISBN 978-0-385266-51-2. With an introduction by Welty and an afterword by Eggleston and Mark Holborn.
  • Expanded edition. Göttingen: Steidl, 2015. ISBN 978-3-86930-792-3. Ten volume set, 1328 pages, 1010 photographs.
  • The Democratic Forest: Selected Works. New York: David Zwirner; Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. ISBN 978-3-95829-256-7. 68 photographs.
• Faulkner's Mississippi. Birmingham: Oxmoor House, 1990. ISBN 978-0-848710-52-1. With a text by Willie Morris.
• Ancient and Modern. New York: Random House, 1992. ISBN 978-0-224069-63-2. With an introduction by Mark Holborn.
• Horses and Dogs. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution, 1994. ISBN 978-1560985051. Essay by Richard B. Woodward.
• The Hasselblad Award 1998: William Eggleston. Zurich: Scalo; Goteborg: Hasselblad Center, 1999. ISBN 978-3908247982. Edited by Gunilla Knape. With essays by Walter Hopps and Thomas Weski, and a transcript of an interview with Ute Eskildsen.
• William Eggleston. Göttingen: Steidl; Paris: Foundation Cartier, 2001. ISBN 978-2-86925-084-0. Bilingual (French and English).
• Los Alamos. Zurich: Scalo Publishers, 2003. ISBN 978-3-908247-69-2. With a text by Walter Hopps and Thomas Weski.
• 2 1⁄4. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999, 2008, 2011. ISBN 978-0-944092-70-5. With a text by Bruce Wagner.
• The Spirit of Dunkerque.
  • Paris: Biro, 2006. ISBN 2351190173.
  • Corte Madera, CA: Gingko, 2009. With a text by Vincent Gerard and Jean-pierre Rehm.
• 5 × 7. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2007. ISBN 9781931885485. With an essay by Michael Almereyda.
• William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008. With a text by Elisabeth Sussman, Thomas Weski, Tina Kukielski, and Stanley Booth. Exhibition catalog.
  • New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008.
  • New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2008. ISBN 978-0300126211.
• Paris. Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. ISBN 978-3-865219-15-2.
• Before Color. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. ISBN 978-3-869301-22-8.
• For Now. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-1-931885-93-5. Afterword by Michael Almereyda; short texts, "Eggleston, 1971" by Lloyd Fonvielle, "In Conversation with William Eggleston" by Kristina McKenna, "Two Women and One Man" by Greil Marcus, "Night Vision: The Cinema of William Eggleston" by Any Taubin, and a longer text "It Never Entered My Mind": (Answers to 11 frequently asked questions about William Eggleston in the Real World)" by Michael Almereyda.
• Chromes. Göttingen: Steidl, 2011. ISBN 978-3-869303-11-6.
• Los Alamos Revisited. Göttingen: Steidl, 2012. ISBN 978-3-869305-32-5.
• From Black & White to Color. Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. ISBN 978-3869307930. With an introduction by Agnès Sire ("The Invention of a Language"), essay by Thomas Weski.
• At Zenith. Göttingen: Steidl, 2014. ISBN 978-3869307107.
• Polaroid SX-70. Göttingen: Steidl, 2019. ISBN 978-3958295032.
• The Outlands. Steidl, 2021. ISBN 978-3-95829-265-9
• The Outlands, Selected Works. David Zwirner Books, 2022. ISBN 1644230771
• Mystery of the Ordinary. Steidl, 2023. ISBN 978-3-96999-220-3

Filimnima

Documentary appearances

• William Eggleston in the Real World (2005), by Michael Almereyda.
• By the Ways: A Journey with William Eggleston (2007), directed by Vincent Gérard and Cédric Laty – selected for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 2006.
• The Colourful Mr. Eggleston (2009), directed by Jack Cocker and Reiner Holzemer – an episode of the Imagine (TV series) for BBC One.
• The Source (2012), by Doug Aitken.
• Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2013), directed by Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori.

Movie and series appearances

• Great Balls of Fire (1989), directed by Jim McBride – Eggleston plays Jerry Lee Lewis's father, Elmo Lewis.
• Restless, x-ray technician (2011), as himself.
• Today (TV Series) (episode dated 31 May 2011), as himself.
• Sunday Morning (A Father and Daughter's Artistic Collaboration, 2016)

Binkumda

• Musik (Secretly Canadian, 2017) – produced by Tom Lunt
• 512 (Secretly Canadian, 2023) – produced by Tom Lunt

Exhibitions

• 1999–2000: William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
• 2001–2002: William Eggleston, Fondation Cartier, Paris. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London.
• 2002: documenta 11, Kassel, Germany.
• 2002: William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Traveled to Serralves Foundation, Portugal; Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Albertina, Vienna, Austria; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas through 2005).
• 2008: William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video 1961–2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Co-organized with Haus der Kunst, Munich; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Art Institute of Chicago; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• 2012: New Dyes, Rose Gallery, Santa Monica, California
• 2016: William Eggleston: Selections from the Wilson Centre for Photography, Portland Art Museum, Portland.
• 2016: William Eggleston Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London.
• 2017: William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.
• 2023: William Eggleston . Mystery of the Ordinary, C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Pina

• 1974: Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1975: Photographer's Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• 1978: Survey Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, for a survey of Mississippi cotton farms using photography and color video
• 1989: "54 Master Photographers of 1960-1979" Award, Photographic Society of Japan
• 1995: Distinguished Achievement Award, University of Memphis
• 1998: Hasselblad Award, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2003: Special 150th Anniversary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS), Royal Photographic Society, London
• 2004: Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography (ICP)
• 2013: Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award, Sony World Photography Awards, World Photography Organisation, London.

Collections

Eggleston's work is held in the following public collections:

• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
• International Photography Hall of Fame, St.Louis, MO

General references

• Eggleston, William (1989). The Democratic Forest. Introduction by Eudora Welty. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-26651-0.
• Eggleston, William & Morris, William (1990). Faulkner's Mississippi. Birmingham: Oxmoor House. ISBN 0-8487-1052-5.
• Eggleston, William (1992). Ancient and Modern. Introduction by Mark Holborn. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-679-41464-9.
• Lindgren, Carl Edwin. (1993 Summer). "Ancient and modern". Review of Ancient and Modern by William Eggleston. Number, Volume 19:20–21.
• Lindgren, Carl Edwin. (1993). "Enigmatic presence". Review of Ancient and Modern by William Eggleston. RSA Journal (Journal of the Roy. Soc. of Arts), Volume 141 Number 5439, 404.
• Woodward, Richard B. (October 1991). "Memphis Beau". Vanity Fair.
• Eggleston Trust bio

External links

• Eggleston Foundation
• Where World View and World Lines Converge in Fillip
• William J. Eggleston at IMDb
• William Eggleston discography at Discogs