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William Eggleston: American Photographer
October 28, 2010 through December 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 6 to 8 PM
(Los Angeles) - Edward Cella Art + Architecture announces an exhibition of photographs by
noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer,
the
exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985
including several of Eggleston’s most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the
photographer’s working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs
concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic
Camera Photographs and Video, 1961-2008
presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and with William
Eggleston: On the Road
presented by dnj Gallery.
Eggleston is widely recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century
owing to his innovative and unconventional approach to composition and early adoption and
mastery of color photography. Over a more than thirty-year career, the artist’s selection of
seemingly commonplace subject matter lays bare the fleeting qualities of human existence while
offering a tender compendium of his home, the American South. Eggleston offers epiphany-like
insight into the everyday. The interplay of opulent color and nonchalant forms in Eggleston's
photographs honors his subjects while providing an additional layer of meaning, turning them into
stunning visual metaphors of an alienated world.
With an eye not to glorify the world in front of his lens, but with the intent to show things for what
they really look like, Eggleston states, “I think I had often wondered what other things see --
if they
saw like we see. And I’ve tried to make a lot of different photographs as if a human did not take
them.” Refining this idea, exhibition curator, Carole Thompson, notes, “Eggleston’s color
images
flaunt their apparent formlessness. Although the artist acknowledges a debt to Henri Cartier-
Bresson, his photographs reject Bresson’s decisive moments.”
Representing a collaboration between Carole Thompson Fine Art and Edward Cella Art +
Architecture, the exhibition of more than forty vintage photographs begins with several one-of-a-
kind black-and-white, hand-developed photographs of the 1960s and also includes pristine
examples of the vivid dye transfer work of the early 1970s. To Eggleston, the richness of
photography stems from the unexpected and uncontrollable, and
the exhibition’s inclusion of the artist’s first experiments in color photography, unique
Chromogenic-coupler
prints developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, document his breakthrough with impromptu encounters
with various individuals and scenes. Comprehensive in nature yet approachable in scale, the exhibition
features selected prints from six of the artist’s influential series, including the landmark 1976
catalogue,
William Eggleston’s Guide, Los Alamos project, and, for the first time in
Los Angeles, offers examples from
the artist’s Berlin Series. His oeuvre has profoundly influenced generations of photographers,
as well as
critics, curators, writers, cinematographers and filmmakers.
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
William Eggleston: Seen and Unseen by Carole Thompson
Saturday, November 6, 2010 / 4:00 PM
6018 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
Join independent curator and photographic historian, Carole Thompson for an overview of
William Eggleston: American Photographer as she presents her personal and unique insights
into the work and life of photographer William Eggleston.
Carole Thompson is a private art dealer with a specialty in American Photographers and
Painters of the 20th Century. A former curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Memphis
Brooks Museum of Art, Thompson published the first catalogue raisonné of Eggleston's multiples.
Her clients include the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, SFMoMA, and the Santa Barbara Museum
of Art among others. She is instrumental in creating important private collections as an advisor to
private museums and individuals internationally.
THE PROGRAM IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Seating is limited. To reserve please call 323.525.0053
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