William Eggleston at the Whitney Museum

William Eggleston photographs at the Whitney Museum
(c) Eggleston Artistic Trust

Untitled, 1965-68 and 1972-74, from Los Alamos, 2003
Born in Memphis and raised in Mississippi, Eggleston was pushed to buy his first Leica camera by a friend at Vanderbilt University.

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