William Eggleston at the Whitney Museum

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

Untitled, c.1971-73, from Troubled Waters, 1980
Though Eggleston does not like the term snapshot aesthetic, his work makes frequent use of the flotsam of the visible world.

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