William Eggleston (American, 1939)

WILLIAM EGGLESTON BIOGRAPHY

Born: July 27, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee

Lives: Memphis, Tennessee

Education: Attended Vanderbilt University, Nashville Tennessee; Delta State

College, Cleveland, Mississippi; University of Mississippi, Oxford,
Mississippi

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2008

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Videos 1961 –
2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (11/7/08 –
1/25/09) traveling to: Haus der Kunst, Munich (2/20 -5/17/09);
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (fall 2009); Art Institute of
Chicago (2/20 – 5/16/10); Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles (fall 2010)

L'oeil démocratique, Centre de Photographie de Lectoure, Lectoure,
France (2/25–3/23/08)

William Eggleston Color Portraits–1974, Photology, Milan (11/21/07–
1/26/08)

2007

William Eggleston Color Portraits–1974, Studio Trisorio, Naples (11/9–
12/7/07)

William Eggleston Color Portraits–1974, Studio Trisorio, Rome (11/7–
12/7/07)

William Eggleston Color Portraits–1974, Inverleith House, Edinburgh,
Scotland (7/28–10/14/07)

Portfolios, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (5/3–8/19/07)

Cadillac Portfolio, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin (2/3 - 3/17/07)

2006

Spirit of Dunkerque, Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine,
Dunkerque, France (6/11–10/29/06)

Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris (6/10–
7/29/06)

Stranded in Canton, Xavier Hufkens, Brusells (3/9–4/8/06)

Camera Work, Berlin (1/14–2/25/06)

2005

Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Cheim & Read, New York (6/28–9/3/05)

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas (2/18/05–3/26/05)

2004

Dust Bells, and the film Stranded in Canton, Victoria Miro Gallery,
London, England (11/22– 12/18/04)

Rose Gallery, Santa Monica (10/9–12/18/04)

Louisiana Project. Photographs 1981–82, Galerie Johannes Faber,
Vienna (4/3–6/12/04)

PreColor, The Black and White Photographs, 1959–1974, and the film,
STRANDED IN CANTON, 1974, Cheim & Read, New York (1/8–
2/21/04)

2003

Pictures from the Seventies, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels (9/11–10/30/03)

Cadillac Portfolio, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
(7/25–9/27/03)

William Eggleston Recent Photographs, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
(4/26 - 5/31/03)

Graceland, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, Germany (3/15–

4/12/03)

2003–2005 William Eggleston: Los Alamos, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

(first venue) (3/14/03 – 6/7/03); traveled to the Museu Serralves,
Porto, Portugal (7/11–10/12/03); Museum of Contemporary Art,
Oslo (1/17–3/7/04); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
(Copenhagen), Denmark (3/19–6/6/04); San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco (8/21/04–1/4/05); The Albertina, Vienna,
Austria (1/26–4/24/05); The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (2/6–
5/15/05)

2002

William Eggleston: CA 2000–2001, Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne,

Germany (2/2002), then to Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy

(9–

11/2002)

William Eggleston: A Selection of 25 Recent Photographs, Documenta
XI, Kassel, Germany, curated by Okwui Enwezor (6/08–9/15/02)

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York Project Gallery (1/25–3/16/02)

William Eggleston: Fotografier 1966–75, Galleri Riis, Oslo, Norway
(4/4–5/5/02)

2001

Willliam Eggleston: Mostly California Desert Pictures 1999 – 2001, Rose
Gallery, Santa Monica (12/8/01 – 1/19/02)

Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France, curated by
Ms. Grazia Quaroni (11/18/01 – 2/24/02) traveled to Hayward
Gallery, London (7/11/02 – 9/22/02)

Thomas Zander, Koln, Switzerland (10/18–12/22/01)

William Eggleston Recent Work, Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels,
Belgium (9/13–11/03/01)

Cheim & Read, New York (3/1 – 4/16/01)

2000

Michael Hue–Williams, London, England (1/25–3/4/00)

1999–2000 William Eggleston and the Color Tradition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los

Angeles (10/23/99–1/23/00)

1999

Cadillac, Cheim & Read, New York (1/13/99–2/20/99)

William Eggleston—1998 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center,
Göteborg, Sweden (3/6/99–5/2/99)

Dye Transfer Prints, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los

Angeles, CA. (1/23/99–3/7/99 or October? 1999)

Fundacion Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa, Bilbao, Spain (8/18–10/3/99)

Eggleston 70/90, The Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los
Angeles (10/14–11/27/99)

1998

Galerie 213, Paris

1997 10.D.70. VI. Robert Miller Gallery, New York (3/11 – 4/12/97)

Eve’s Bayou, Gallery of Contemporary Photography, Los Angeles

(10/18/97– 10/25/97)

1995

Four Portfolios. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis,
TN

Shiraishi Comtemporary Art, Inc, Yokohama, Japan (–1996)

1994

From Graceland to Wasteland, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York,

T.h.e., Naples, Italy.

Scarabb Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN

1993

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Kurts Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN

1992

Ancient and Modern, Barbican Gallery, London. Traveled to Louisiana
Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany;
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich. catalogue.

William Eggleston. First Color 1967–1972, Laurence Miller Gallery,
New York

1990

Democratic Forest, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

1989

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

University Museum, Oxford, Mississippi

1988

Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC

1986

Southern Texas Museum, Austin, Texas

Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN

William Eggleston’s Guide, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

1985

William Eggleston's Early Black and White Photography, Memphis
Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN, catalogue.

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1985 Recent Color Photographs, Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.

New Works from Tennessee Project Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

William Eggleston. Photographs from Miami, Day Vista Photography
Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC

1984

Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Graceland, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC

Birmingham Museum, Birmingham, AL

James Corocoran Gallery, Los Angeles

Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, Colorado

Graceland and the South, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

1983

William Eggleston: Colour Photographs from the American South, Victoria
and Albert Museum, London

Werkstatt fur Photographie, Berlin

Fotogalerie in ForumStadpark, Graz, Berlin

William Eggleston: Recent Color Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San
Francisco

1982

Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC

1981

William Eggleston. Photographs 1967–1978, Light Gallery, New York

1980

Troubled Waters, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1979

Photographer's Gallery, Melborne, Australia

Volkhochschule,

Berlin

American Photography in the 1970s, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

1978

Election Eve, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas

Nicholas Nixon & William Eggleston, Cronin Gallery, Houston,

Texas.

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago

Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC

1977

Memphis Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN

William Eggleston. Color Photographs 1966–1977, Castelli Gallery, New
York

Frumkin Gallery, Chicago

Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC

Election Eve, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

William Eggleston. Dye Transfer Photographs, Grapesteak Gallery,

Washington,

DC

1976

Photographs by William Eggleston, Museum of Modern Art, New York
City, Traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; University of CA at Los Angeles, Los
Angeles; Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Art Gallery, University of
Maryland, College Park, MD.

Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco

1975

Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1974

Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2008

SIGN/AGE: Part 2, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York (11/21 –
12/19/08)

Implant, The UBS Art Gallery & The Horticultural Society of New
York, New York (8/7/08-11/10/08)
Vivid Vernacular: William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker
Evans, The Menil Collection, Houston (1/11–4/20/08)
PICTURES IN SERIES: Multiple Visions and Sequential Imagery, Fisher
Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY

2007

People Taking Pictures of Each Other, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston
(9/6/07 - 10/15/07)

Easy Rider: Road Trips Through America, Yancey Richardson Gallery,
New York, (7/11/07 - 9/14/07)

Second View, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg,
Germany (4/1–6/24/07)

What Does the Jellyfish Want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
(3/31–6/24/07)

Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (3/15–9/3/07)

On the Wall: Aperture Magazine ’05–’06, Aperture Gallery, New York
(1/11–3/3/07)

2006

A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu–Farben, Kunstmuseum Kloster
Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany (12/10/06–3/11/07)

Sus Ojos Les Delatan, Fundación foto Colectania, Barcelona
(11/22/06–3/24/07)

Where We Live: Photographs of America From the Berman Collection,
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (10/24/06–2/25/07)

Brighton Photo Biennial, University of Brighton, Brighton, Great Briton
(10/06–10/29/06)

75 at 75, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (9/22–10/22/06)

Las Pozas: Photographs of a Surrealist Gardin in Xilitla, Mexico, Texas
Gallery, Houston, TX (9/7/06–10/14/06)

The Age of Innocent, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas (5/19–
7/15/06)

Full House–Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York (6/29/06–9/3/06)

Tiefenschärfe, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden–Baden, Baden–Baden,

Germany (5/13–7/2/06)

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Museum
of Art, Raleigh, NC (5/7–7/16/06)

An Ongoing Low-grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (May
– June 2006)

William Eggleston–James Welling–Stephen Wilks, Xavier Hufkens,
Brussels, Belgium (3/9–4/8/06)
Sumner Group Exhibition, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS (3/5 - 4/1/06)

Tendenzen Internationaler Fotografie, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst,
Delmenhorst, Germany (1/13–3/12/06)

2005

Speaking with Hands. Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Guggenheim
Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (11/29–3/22/06)

Isabelle Huppert: Portraits of a Woman, PS1, New York (10/23 -

12/5/05) travels to Paris, Couvent des Cordeliers (1/9 - 2/16/06);

Galerie C/O Berlin, Berlin, march-April 2006 ; Madrid : Royal Botanic

Garden Gallery, Madrid; May-June 2006; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum

of Photography, July-August 2006; Mole Antonelliana Museo nazionale

del Cinema, Turin, December-February 2007; FotoMuseum, The

Hague March-April 2007; The Manege, Moscow, June – July 2008

Superstars, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (9/4/05–2/22/06)

People, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans (8/1–

11/13/05)

Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, Philadelphia (7/30–11/27/05)

Balance in Two Acts, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
(6/11–7/10/05)

Times

Two,

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (7/7–8/19/05)

Il Teatro dell’Arte, Villa Manin Centre For Contemporary Art,
Passariano, Italy (6/9–11/6/05)

Colour After Kline, Barbican Art Gallery, London (05/26/05–09/05)

Surface, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (5/5–6/30/05)

La Photographie à l’épreuve, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne,
France (2/10–5/22/05)

American Pictures, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(01/22/04– 02/2705)

2004

Skin Deep, Cook Fine Art, New York (11/3 - 12/17/04).

Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, The
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (10/23/04–1/31/05)

Picturing the South, Pace / MacGill Gallery, New York (10/21–12/4/04)

Innocence Exposed : The Child in Modern Photography, The FRIST
Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (9/24/04 - 1/205)

Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (6/11 -7/12/04)

Dog Days of Summer, UCR / California Museum of Photography,
Riverside (6/3–9/17/04)

Seen at MOMA, Part II, Galerie Kicken, Berlin (5/29–9/13/04)

MOMA. Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the
Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (4/28–8/1/04)

In America, Sutton Lane, London. (3/5–4/3/04)

Ideal and Reality, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna (1/20 –
5/9/04)

Seventies Color Photography, Kennedy Boesky Photographs, New York
(1/3–1/31/04)

2003

Jede Fotografie–Ein Bild. Die Siemens Sammlung, Pinakothek der
Moderne, Munich (12/18/03–4/11/04)

Cold Play, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
(11/15/03–6/13/04)

The Men's Room, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

(9/21/03 - 1/4/04)

Moving

Time,

Firenze Mostre Spa, Florence, curated by Achille Bonito

Oliva and Sergio Risaliti (7/4 - 10/15/03)

Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties, The J. Paul Getty Museum,

Los Angeles (7/1–10/5/03)

Oases, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (6/30–8/22/03)

Cruel & Tender, Tate Modern (6/3/03–9/7/03), Ludwig Museum
Germany (11/29/03 – 2/18/04)

Time Frame. Impressions of American Social and Cultural Roots, Forte
Belvedere, Florence (5/30–7/31/03)

20th Anniversary Show, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Cologne (4/25–

10/18/03)

Abstraction in Photography, Von Lintel Gallery, New York (2/6–
3/22/03)

Thinking With Blood: Conflict and Culture in the American South,

Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University (1/17/ -
3/10/03); traveled to: Hite Gallery at University of Louisville Kentucky
(9/1 - 10/31/03); Harriet Tubman African American Museum, Macon
Georgia (1/8 - 2/22/04); Asheville Museum of Art Asheville North
Carolina (3/12 - 6/17/04)

2002 Contemporary American Photography, Leeum Samsung Museum of

Modern Art, Seoul (10/20/02–2/2/03)

Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American
Art 1940–2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(6/27–9/22/02)

Documenta XI Kassel, Germany (6/8/02 – 9/15/02)

Amerikanische Fotografie aus demMuseum Folkwang, Museum
Folkwang, Essen, Germany (5/20–8/11/02)

Opportunity,

Jay Grimm Gallery (2/20 - 3/24/02)

2001

Revisited: Aspects of American Color Photography, Kicken Berlin, Berlin,
Germany (1/20–3/16/01)

Without Hesitation: Views of the Olbricht Collection, Neues Museum
Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, Ohne Zoegern–(6/3–9/16/01)

Looking @ Photographs, Lake Austin Fine Arts, Austin, TX (9/7–
10/7/00)

The Alchemy of Light, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville (3/10–4/7/01)

Settings & Players, Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography, White
Cube, London (3/9/–4/14/01) Prague, The Old Town Hall (6/21–
9/16/01)

Amerikanische Fotografie ca. 1970, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (8/24–
10/6/01)

Open City: Street Photographs since 1950, Museum of Modern Art,
Oxford (5/6/01 – 7/15/01). Museao de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain

(1/21–4/28/02). Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC (6/13–9/8/02)

Fondation Cartier Pour l’Art Contemporaine (11/12/01 – 2/24/02)

Opportunity, Jay Grimm, New York (2/22–3/23/02)

2000 How you look at it—Photographs of the 20th Century, Sprengel Museum,

Hannover (5/14–8/6/00)

Drive: Power–Progress–Desire, Govett–Brewster Art Gallery, New
Plymouth, New Zealand (2/12–4/30–00)

25 Photographers 25 Years, Carol Ehlers Gallery (12/00–2/01)

1999 The American Century, The Final Victory, Part III, James Danziger

Gallery, New York (12/4/99 – ???)

The Full Monty, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, (7/6 - 8/13/99)

Summertime, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (7/23–9/7/99)

New York Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Chelsea,
New York (3/6/99–4/3/99)

3 Folios: William Eggleston CADILLAC, Bernard Faucon LE
TEMPS D’ARANT, Man Ray ELECTRICITE (7/31–9/25/99)

The American Century, Part II, The Whitney Musuem of American Art,
New York

1997

Hope Photographs, National Arts Club, New York

Blind Spot: Coming of Age, White Columns, New York

About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York,

1996

American Masters of Photography: A 100 Year Survey, Southern
Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York

1995

The Jewish Museum, Heimat, Vienna, Austria.

Dallas Artists and Research and Exhibition, Blind Spot, Dallas, TX

Tibet House Benefit Exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Human Nature Benefit Exhibition at the New Museum, New Museum,
NY

100 Years/100 Images, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

Internationale Foto–Triennale Esslingen 1995, Galerie der Stadt
Esslingen, 3. Esslingen, Germany

Seeing Things, Andre Emmerich, NY

20/20, In Khan Gallery, NY

1994

A Sense of Place, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon

One Hundred Years of Street Photography, University Art Galleries,
Wright State University, Dayton, OH

1993

In Camera, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Daydream Nation, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

1989

Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1985

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

American Images 1945–1980, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England

(toured

Britain)

1983

Subjective Vision, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

1982

Slices of Time: CA Landscapes, Oakland Museum, CA,

Traveled to Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeleslifornia

Floods of Light: The History of Flash Photography, The Photographer’s
Gallery, London, England

1981

University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Color in Contemporary
Color Photography, Carbondale, Illinois catalogue.

An Introduction to Colour Photography, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh,

Scotland.

1980

Three American Photographers, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, MA.

Lee Friedlander, William Eggleston, Atlanta Gallery of Photography,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Eggleston/Nixon, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Aspects of the 1970's, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts,
catalogue.

Zietgenossische Amerikanische Farbphotographie, Galerie Rudolf Kicken,
Cologne, West Germany.

Farbwerke––Eine Neue Generation, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland.

Southeastern Graphics Invitational, Mint Museum, Charlotte, North
Carolina, catalogue.

Nuages, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.

The Imaginary Photo Museum, Kunsthalle, Cologne, West Germany

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

1979

Auto–Icons, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
(Downtown).

One of a Kind, Museum of Fine Arts (traveling), Houston, Texas
catalogue.

American Landscape Photography, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington,
DC

Ten from 'Mirrors and Windows,' Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco.

American Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art (traveling), Washington,
DC, catalogue.

Photographie im Alltag Amerikas, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich.

Tireoler Landesmuseum (traveling), Photographie als Kunst, Innsbruck,
catalogue.

Invitational Color Photography, MoMing Gallery, Chicago.

Curator's Choice: Contemporary American Photography, Fortuny
Museum, Venice, Italy.

American Photography in the 70’s,Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois.

1978

Light Gallery, New York

Photographs from the Wagstaff Collection,Corcoran Gallery of Art,

Washington,

DC

In Color, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Photographs from the Wagstaff Collection, Grey Art Gallery, New York.

Six Photographers, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC

By the Side of the Road, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New
Hampshire.

Mirrors and Windows, Museum of Modern Art (traveling) New York,
catalogue.

23 Photographers, 23 Directions, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool,
England.

The Quality of Presence, Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC catalogue.

Amerikanische Landschaftsphotographie, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich.

1977

USIA traveling exhibition The Contemporary South, organized by the
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana. Catalogues
published for individual exhibitions in Asia and Europe.

10 Photographes Contemporains/tendances actuelles aux Etats–Unis,
Galerie Zabriskie, Paris, France.

Contemporary Color Photography, Indiana Art Museum, Bloomington,
Indiana.

The Morgan Gallery, William Eggleston, William Christenberry, Shawnee
Mission, Kansas.

Some Color Photographs, Castelli Graphics, New York

Contemporary American Photographic Works, The Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Texas. Traveled to the Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; La Jolla Museum of

Contemporary Art, CA; Newport Harbor Art Museum,

Newport Beach, CA

1976

Aspects of American Photography, University of Missouri, catalogue, St.
Louis, Missouri.

Spectrum, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Color Photographs 1976, The Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles.

1975

14 American Photographers, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore,
Maryland. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
Beach, CA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort
Worth, Texas. catalogue co–organizedby Renato Danese and John
Gossage, text by Renato Danese.

Color Photography: Inventors and Innovators 1850–1975, Yale University
Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, catalogue.

Photography 2, Jack Glenn Gallery, catalogue, Corona del Mar, CA.

1974

Art Now '74',Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington,
Straight Color, DC Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

1973

Photography Workshop Invitational, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dupont
Circle, Washington, DC

ARTIST’S BOOKS

Election Eve, 100 color–coupler prints in two volumes, edition of 5, published in 1977

by Caldecot Chubb, New York, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle.

Morals of Vision, 8 color–coupler prints, edition of 15, published in 1978 by Caldecot

Chubb, New York.

Flowers, 12 chromogenic coupler prints, edition of 20, published in 1978 by Caldecot

Chubb, New York.

Wedgewood Blue, 15 chromogenic coupler prints, edition of 20, published in 1979 by

Caldecot Chubb, New York.

PORTFOLIOS

14 Pictures, a portfolio of 14 dry–transfer prints, Edition of 15, Washington,
D.C:Harry H. Lunn, Jr, 1974.

Seven, 7 Chromogenic Coupler prints, Edition of 3, New York: Caldecot Chubb,
1979.

Troubled Waters, 15 Dye Transfer prints, Edition of 30, New York: Caldecot Chubb,
1980.

Southern Suite, 10 Dye Transfer prints, Edition of 12, Washington, D.C: Lunn Gallery,
1981.

William Eggleston's Graceland, 10 Dye transfer prints, Edition of 31, Washington,
DC: Middendorf Gallery, 1984.

Eggleston, 10 Dye transfer prints, Edition of 9, Sarasota, Florida: J. Crouse, 1991.

10 D.70.VI. 10 dye transfer prints, edition of 15, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
and PhotoArt HmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 1996.

10 D.70.V2. 10 dye transfer prints, edition of 15, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
and PhotoArt HmbH, Hamburg, Germany, 1996.

Cadillac. 12 chromogenic color photographs, edition of 15, published by Cheim &
Read, New York.

Los Alamos. 75 dye transfer prints, edition of 7, published by Cheim & Read, New
York.

Dust Bells Volume One. 10 dye transfer prints, edition of 15, published by Cheim &
Read, New York.

Dust Bells Volume Two. 10 dye transfer prints, edition of 15, published by Cheim &
Read, New York.

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

2006

Spirit of Dunkerque, Adam Biro, Paris, 2006

5x7, Twin Palms, New Mexico, 2006

2003 Los

Alamos, Scalo, Germany, 2003

2001 Settings & Players, Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography,

White Cube, London, 2001.

2001

William Eggleston, France: Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporaine, 2001 (exhibition catalogue–Thames and
Hudson, English Edition).

2000 Open City, Street photographs Since 1950, Moma Oxford, 2000.

1994

Horses and Dogs, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994.

1992 William Eggleston, Ancient and Modern, New York: Mark Holborn,

Random House, 1992 (monograph).

1992 William

Eggleston, Denmark: Lousiana Museum of Art, 1992

(exhibition catalogue).

1992 Ancient and Modern, New York: Random House, 1992 (monograph).

1991 Faulkner's

Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama: text by Willie Morris,

1991 (monograph).

1991 Rhythm

Oil, London and New York: Stanley Booth, 1991.

1989

The Democratic Forest, London and New York: Doubleday, intro. by
Eudora Welty, 1989 (monograph).

1987 American Independents: Eighteen Color Photographers, New York:

ed. Sally Eauclaire, Abbeville Press1987,

1986

True Stories, New York and London: David Byrne, 1986 (Film,
catalogue).

1985 American Images: Photography 1945–1980, London: ed. Peter

Turner and John Benton–Harris, 1985.

1984

New Color/New Work, New York: Sally Euclaire, 1984.

1983

Elvis at Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, 1983.

1982

The Imaginary Photo Museum, London: Helmut Gernsheim, Renate
and L. Fritz Gruber and others, 1982 . (Cologne 1981)

1982

Annie on Camera, New York: 1982.

1981

The New Color Photography, New York: Sally Eauclaire, 1981.

1979

American Images, New Work by Twenty Contemporary
Photographers,

New York: ed. Renato Danese, 1979.

1978

Mirrors and Windows, New York: John Szarkowski, The Museum of
Modern Art, 1978.

1978

Amerikanische Landschaftsphotographie 1869–1978, Munich:
exhibition catalogue, 1978.

1977 Election

Eve, Washington,DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977.

1976

William Eggleston's Guide, New York: The Museum of Modern
Art,1976 (monograph).

1975

14 American Photographers, Baltimore: ed. Renato Danese, The

Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975. (exhibition catalogue)

SELECTED ARTICLES AND ESSAYS ON EGGLESTON'S WORK

2006

Ross, David A., Stuck Inside of Memphis, Artforum, May, 2006. p.61.

2005

Helfand, Glen, A Brief Visit with William Eggleston, Art on Paper, Jan.
p. 40–41.

Rosenberg, Karen, Show and Tell: William Eggleston, New York, July
18. p. 69.

Johnson, Ken. William Eggleston: The Nightclub Portraits, 1973, The
New York Times, July 29.

Doran, Anne, William Eggleston, The Nightclub Portraits 1973, Time
Out New York, July 21.

William Eggleston, The New Yorker, July 25.

Dollar, Steve, A kind of poetry in their fake, freakish features,
Newsday, July 15.

Tully, Nola, The American Dream by Night, The Sun, Sept. 1.

Rafferty, Terrence, As for the Photographer, He Had No Comment,
The New York Times, Aug. 28, p. 11.

William Eggleston: The Nightclub Portraits, 1973, Modern Painters,
Oct.

Burton, Johanna, William Eggleston Artforum, Oct.

2004

William Eggleston, The Village Voice, Jan. 21.

Laster, Paul, William Eggleston, Time Out, Jan. 22.

William Eggleston, The New Yorker, Jan. 26.

Smith, Roberta, William Eggleston, The New York Times, Jan. 30.

Leffingwell, Edward, William Eggleston at Cheim & Read, Art in
America, July.

DeCarlo, Tessa, Rainbow’s Beginning, The New York Times, Aug. 15.

Keats, Jonathon, William Eggleston, Art + Auction, Oct. p. 110–117.

Schwabsky, Barry, William Eggleston, KultureFlash, Jan. 12.

2003

Woodward, Richard, Venus DeSoto: William Eggleston’s Automotive
Art, The New York Times, July 13, p. 27.

Hopps, Walter, William Eggleston: Memphis Bungalows & Night
Portraits, Grand Street 72, p. 24.

Ambrose, Chris, William Eggleston, Tokion, p. 46–49.

Weski, Thomas, Paradox, Exit, p. 62–71.

2002

Soutif, Daniel, William Eggleston, Artforum, April 2002, p. 131–133.

Galloway, David, Documenta 11, ARTNEWS, Summer 2002, p. 169–
170.

Clemens, Randolph, Ordinary and the Unusual, Cartier, p. 94–101.

Gleadell, Colin, More real than reality, Electronic Telegraph, July.

Oddy, Jason, A Democratic Eye, Modern Painters, Autumn, p. 86–
89.Millar, Jeremy, William Eggleston, Hayward Gallery, London,
portfolio 36, p. 64–65.

In Country, The New York Times Magazine, Oct. 20, p. 45–54.

2001

Safe, Emma, Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950, Art Monthly,
June 2001, p. 247.

Kernan, Nathan, William Eggleston’s Democratic Photography The Los
Alamos Project, Art on Paper, Nov./Dec. 2001, p. 64–67.

Kushner, Rachel, William Eggleston, BOMB, Summer, 2001, col. Ill.
Cover, pp. 4–5.

Garnier, Philippe, William Eggleston, Girls From Tennessee, Vogue
(French), No. 822, November, 2001, pp. 206–212.

Eggleston, William. Untitled Blind Spot, No. 49, 2001.

Cumming, Laura, Visions of the City, The Observer, May 20, 2001.

Collins, Michael, Predators of the Concrete Jungle, The Daily
Telegraph, May 5, 2001, p. A9.

Cowan, Amber, Open City: Street Photographs Since 1950, The
Times, May 5–11, 2001.

Barker, Paul, All the World’s a Street, The Independent on Sunday,
April15, 2001, pp. 12–14.

Alton, Jeannine, Lots to Enjoy and Ponder, The Oxford Times, May
11,

Mead, Andrew, Scrutinising the City, The Architects’ Journal, May
2001, pp. 42,43.

Searle, Adrian, Concrete Jumble, The Guardian, May 8, 2001, pp. 12–
13.

1999

Dangin, Pascal, image: photography, WMagazine, ill., March 1999.

1996

No author cited: Photographs by William Eggleston, The Oxford
American, December 1995/January 1996.

1995

Eggleston, William. Food Marke. . . Cold Drink. . . ., Grand Street, no.
49,1995.

Eggleston, William. Portfolio, ArtForum, Oct, 1995.

1994

Aukeman, Anastasia, William Eggleston at Robert Miller, Art in
America, April, 1994.

Sampson, Tim, Eggle Eye, Memphis, March, 1994.

1993

Haworth–Booth, Mark, William Eggleston: An Interview, History of
Photography, v.17, no.1, Spring 1993.

McKenna, Kristine, Soaking Up the Local Color, Los Angeles Times,
November 12, 1993.

Hagan, Charles, William Eggleston’s Reticent Style, The New York
Times, November 12, 1993.

1992

Williams, Hugo, A Clicking Machine in the South, Times Literary
Supplement, March, 1992.

No author cited: William Eggleston. Wilful, The Economist,
October 3,1992.

1991

Woodward, Richard, Memphis Beau, Vanity Fair, October 1991.

1990

Jones, Malcom, Translating Ideas into Color, Newsweek, January 1,
1990.

Hopps, Walter, Los Alamos–A Fragment, Grand Street 36, New
York,1990.

Thompson, Carol, William Eggleston: Seen & Unseen, The Print
Collector's Newsletter, vol. xxi–5, November–December, 1990.

1989

Grundberg, Andy, The Democratic Forest, New York Times,
December 3, 1989.

Hagan, Charles, An Interview with William Eggleston, Aperture 115,

Summer,

1989.

1988

Holborn, Mark, William Eggleston: Democracy and Chaos, Artforum,
Summer, 1988.

1986

Gruber, J. Richard, William Eggleston's Early Black and White
Photography, Brooks Museum, Memphis, 1986.

1984

Holborn, Mark, Color Codes, Aperture 96, 1984.

Artner, Alan, William Eggleston: Red Ceilings and Green Showerstalls,
Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1984.

Laubert, Amy, William Eggleston, New Art Examiner, March 1984.

Marcus, Greil, View of Graceland and The Absence of Elvis,
ARTFORUM, March, 1984.

1983

Harrington, Richard, Graceland: Images of a Fallen King, Washington
Post, December 10, 1983.

Haworth–Booth, Mark, William Eggleston: Color Photographs from
the American South, Victoria and Albert Museum catalogue, August,
1983.

Sischy, Ingrid, Matters of Record, Artforum, February, 1983.

Thomas, Bill, New Photos of Graceland Show a King's Own Room's,
Baltimore Sun, December 23, 1983.

1981

Zelevansky, Lynn, iWilliam Eggleston, Charles Cowles Gallery, Flash
Art (Milan), January/February 1981.

1980

Edwards, Owen, Amazing Graceland, American Photographer,
March1980

Hedgepath, Ted, Modernist Strategies, Artweek, May 24, 1980,
pp.10–11, ill. p.11.

Weiermair, Peter, Photographie Als Kunst 1879–1979,
Allerheiligenpresse, Innsbruck, 1980, p. 510, ill p. 511.

1979

Elliot, David, Photography into Center Ring, Chicago Sun–Times,
February, 1979, ill.

Finkel, Claudia, Cautious Curating, The New Art Examiner, Chicago,
1979.

Artner, Alan G., Institute Develops Three Photography Shows,
Chicago Tribune February 4, 1979.

Delpire, Robert, ed. Special Photo No.5, Le Nouvel Observateur,
March,1979.

Danese, Renato, ed. American Images, New York: McGraw Hill, 1979,
pp. 80–89, ill. pp. 81–88, cover.

Blodgett, Richard, Photographs: A Collector's Guide, New York:
Ballantine, 1979, pp.12, 20, 116–7.

Perry, Tony, Eggleston Mirrors Urban Life, The Age, Melbourne,
Australia, n.p., n.d., 1979.

Rathbone, Belinda, ed., and Eugina Parry Janis, One of a Kind, Godine,
Boston, 1979, pp. 13, 72, 76, ill. plates 34, 35.

Witkin, Lee, and Barbara London, The Photograph Collector’s Guide,
New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1979, pp. 27, 129, 130, 283, ill.
plate 5.

1978

Grundberg, Andy and Julia Scully, Currents: American Photography
Today, Modern Photography, September 1978, vol.42, no.9, pp.82,
83, ill.p.83.

Lunn Gallery, The Quality of Presence, Washington DC, 1978, p. 23.

Eauclaire, Sally, Color Photography as Art–Eggleston Paves Way,
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY), January 22, 1978.

Edwards, Owen, Exhibitions. William Eggleston, American
Photographer, July 1978.

Jordan, Bill, Three Vizards of Odds: New York Color, Afterimage,
February 1978.

Owens, Don, pub. Picture Magazine, vol. 1, no. 5, n.d. 1978, ill. p. 1,2.

Semabch, Klaus–Jurgen, Amerikanische Landschaftsphotographie, Die
Neue Sammlung, Munich, 1978, ill. pp. 47, 49.

Thornton, Gene, New Photography: Turning Traditional Standards
Upside Down, ART–news, April 1978.

Zimmer, William, William Eggleston, Arts, March 1978.

1977

Forgey, Benjamin, Plains, Georgia, Without Cliche, The Washington
Star, December 12, 1977, P.F–19, ill.

Edwards, Owen, William Eggleston's New Clothes, Village Voice, vol.
22, no. 50, December 12, 1977.

Northrop, Guy, Learning to Look at Eggleston’s Photos, Commercial
Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee, February 20, 1977, p. 14, ill.

Forgey, Benjamin, A Paradox in Color Photos, The Washington Star,
December 12, 1977, p.B–1, B–2, ill.

Malcom, Janet, Photography. Color, The New Yorker, vol. 53, no. 34,
October 10, 1977, pp. 107–111.

Porter, Allan, The Second Generation of Color Photographers,
Camera (Luzerne, Switzerland), vol. 56, no. 7, July 1977, p. 19, ill. p.
15.

Richard, Paul, Galleries, The Washington Post, September 17, 1977, p.
C–1.

Thornton, Gene, New Color Photography is a Blurry Form of Art,
New York Times, July 17, 1977.

Tighe, Mary Anne, and Elizabeth Lang, Art America, McGraw–Hill,
New York, 1977, pp. 332–333, ill. plate viii.

Davis, Douglas, New Frontiers in Color, Newsweek, April 19, 1976.

Callahan, Sean, MOMA Lowers the Color Bar, New York Magazine,
vol. 9, No. 26, June 28, 1976, p.75, ill. p. 74.

Edelson, Michael, MOMA Shows Her Colours, Camera 35, vol. 20,
no.8, October 1976, pp. 10–11, ill. p.11.

Fondillier, Harvey, Shows We've Seen, Popular Photography, vol. 79,
October 1976, pp.31, 228, ill. p.228.

Hellman, Roberta and Marvin Hoshino, What Television has Brought,
Village Voice, July 5, 1976, pp.95–6.

Jordan, Bill, Eggleston at MOMA, Photograph, vol.1, no.1, Summer,
1976, pp.12, 26, ill. p.12.

Kozloff, Max How to Mystify Color Photography, Artforum,
November,1976.

Kramer, Hilton, Art: Focus on Photo Shows, New York Times, May
28,1976.

Scully, Julia, Seeing Pictures, Modern Photography, August 1976.

Davis, Douglas, Color Shock, House and Garden, vol. 148, no. 9,
September 1976, pp. 68, 114, 191.

Rice, Shelley, Eggleston’s Guide to the South, SoHo Weekly News,
New York, June 17, 1976, p. 29.

Preston, Malcolm, Photographed Silence, Newsday (Long Island, New
York), June 10, 1976.

Meinwald, Dan, Reviews: Color Me MoMa, Afterimage, September
1976, p. 18, ill.

Murray, Joan, The Colors of William Eggleston, Artweek (Oakland,
CA), September 18, 1976, pp. 11–12, ill. p. 11.

Seigel, Larry (review), Photo Review, Midtown Y Gallery, New York,
vol.1, no.2, June 15, 1976, p. 1.

Szarkowski, John, William Eggleston’s Guide, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York, 1976.

Szarkowski, John, Choice: A Gallery Without Walls, Camera, vol. 55,
no. 11, November 1976, pp. 12–19, ill. pp. 13–18, cover.

Thornton, Gene, Masters of the Camera, Ridge Press, New York,
1976, p. 25, ill. pp. 229–233.

Time–Life Books, eds., Photography Year 1976, Time Life Books, New
York, p. 56, ill. pp. 42, 57–63.

The Time–Life Editors, The Commonplace in Living Color,
Photography Year 1976, New York, 1976.

Upton, Barbara and John, eds., Photography, Little Brow, Boston
Massachusetts, 1976, ill.

1975

Szarkowski, John, Photography: A Different Kind of Art, New York
Times Sunday Magazine, April 13, 1975.

1974

Davis, Douglas, Photography, Newsweek, vol. 84, no. 17, October 21,
1974, pp. 64–70, ill. p.63.

Uno, oshihiko, ed., Camera Mainichi, Tokyo, December 1974, p. 54, ill.
comver, 55–62.

1971

Trachtenberg, Alan, Peter Neill, and Peter Bunnel, eds., The City,
Oxford Univeristy Press, Nw york, 1971, p. 616, ill. p. 519.

1960

Szarkowski, John, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography
Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1978, p. 25, ill.
pp. 116, 117.

Hansen, Henning, William Eggleston, exhibition catalogue, Louisiana Museum

ofModern Art, Denmark.

Lanou, Toby, Eggleston: He Rallies a New Art Tendency, What’s Up in Art, p. 1, ill.

Lewis, Jim, The Condition of Music, Frieze, issue 52, pp.80–85, ill. Cover.

Malcom, Janet, Color, Diana & Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetics of Photography,

Boston, MA.

Walker Art Gallery, 23 Photographers, 23 Directions, Liverpool, pp. 10, 11, ill.pp. 46,

47.

AWARDS & HONORS

The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 1998.

Presentation ceremony in Göteborg on March 6, 1999.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Australia National Gallery

Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Brandts Klaesderfabrik, Odense, Denmark
Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Switzerland
J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, CA
Madison Art Center, Wisconsin
Memphis Brooks Museum, TN
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Siemens Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Southern Texas Museum, Austin, TX
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England