
circa 1970
A photograph by William Eggleston from circa 1970, signed on the verso, representing early color photography or documentary work from this prolific period.
- Medium
- Signed in ink on the verso.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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April 4, 2019
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Stephen Shore
American · b. 1947

Shore pioneered color documentary photography in the 1970s alongside Eggleston, capturing ordinary American landscapes and everyday scenes with the same matter of fact directness and vivid color saturation that defines this period work.

Joel Sternfeld
American · b. 1944

Sternfeld shares Eggleston's fascination with American vernacular culture and quotidian subjects rendered in rich color, producing large format documentary photographs that elevate mundane scenes into quietly poetic observations about contemporary life.

Garry Winogrand
American · b. 1928

Winogrand worked during the same prolific era capturing unguarded moments of American social life with a spontaneous documentary sensibility that parallels Eggleston's interest in the overlooked textures and rhythms of everyday existence.
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