William EgglestonWilliam Eggleston has produced a copious body of color photographs that together provide an eccentric, aggregate portrait of Memphis, Tennessee, and the Mississippi Delta. In 1976 Eggleston was the subject of the first exhibition of color photographyat the Museum of Modern Art, New York, William Eggleston's Guide; that show is credited by many as legitimizing color work for the world of photography. Eggleston has exhibited widely, with solo shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002); the Fondation Cartier, Paris (2001); the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden (1999); the Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen (1992); the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1990), and elsewhere. His work is represented in many American and international collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica; the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Eggleston's work has been published in numerous monographs, among them William Eggleston's Guide (1976), The Democratic Forest (1989), Ancient and Modern (1992), 2 1/4(1999), Los Alamos (2003) and 5x7 (2006). He had a major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2008. Read More Read Less