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William Eggleston (1939)
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Biography
(b
Memphis,
TN,
July
1939).
American
photographer.
Eggleston
first
became
interested
in
photography
in
1962
when
he
was
introduced
to
the
work
of
Henri
Cartier-Bresson.
By
1966
he
had
begun
to
photograph
almost
exclusively
in
colour.
Eggleston
is
regarded
as
a
pioneer
among
contemporary
photographers
in
the
exploration
of
the
artistic
potential
of
colour
photography,
which
had
been
out
of
favour
because
of
the
impermanence
of
its
tones
and
its
supposed
incompatibility
with
the
formal
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