William Eggleston at the Whitney Museum

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

Karco, c. 1983-86, from The Democratic Forest, 1989
"I have never considered myself making what one would call Southern art," Eggleston says, "The pictures look Southern because that's where they were taken."

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