"A native Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, William Eggleston has created a singular portrait of his native South since the late 1960s. His large-format prints monumentalize everyday subjects. Although he began his career making black and white images, he soon abandoned them to experiment with color technology. The Museum of Modern Art's groundbreaking one-man show of 1976, William Eggleston's Guide, established his reputation as the pioneer of modern color photography.
The appreciation of Eggleston's work has come a long way since the 1976 exhibition. He has been called the "father of color photography" - although he did not of course invent it - and since the 1990s he is widely regarded as the leading and most influential color photographer of the 20th century." (http://www.egglestontrust.com/bio.html)
After looking at some of Eggleston's work and reading about his life, as well as watching a movie about his life and his process, I think his fame might be more because he was shooting color photos in a time when every one else was shooting black and white. His images are often of the mundane things in life that any person would be able to capture. I think what makes his images slightly more unique then the average color photographer of that most of his images have several colors that are present through out the entire image. The image I included in the blog is an example of this. Besides this and his unique way of framing the picture and what he chooses to include and exclude I don't see much difference between him and any person taking color images during that time.
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