William Eggleston

In the 1960s, his exploration of the everyday and banal resulted in a singular vision of America through its supermarkets, bars, gas stations, cars and hobos. In 1973–1974, he taught at Harvard University, where he increased his experiments with the medium, notably his development of the use of the dye-transfer process which enabled him to control the use of colour in his photographs much as a painter would. In 1976, his consecration as a colour photographer was complete with his exhibition William Eggleston’s Guide at the New York MoMA de New York, a key moment in photographic history. From that point on, Eggleston received a variety of commissions, notably one from the magazine  Rolling Stone on the end of Jimmy Carter's electoral campaign. In 1984, he produced The Democratic Forest, a major project that consisted of over 10,000 prints created in the United States and Europe. In 1998, he was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography and his experimental video works were featured at the New York MoMA.

In the 2000s, his work was shown more and more, among which number two eponymous exhibitions by the Fondation Cartier, in 2001 and 2009 respectively.