William Eggleston: American Color

“William Eggleston, American Color” is the first large solo exhibition in South America dedicated to American photographer William Eggleston (b. 1939, Memphis). The show features around 170 original photos from 1960s and ’70s, considered to be Eggleston’s golden years, coming from famous collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston (MFAH), Eggleston Artistic Trust, Cheim & Read and Victoria Miro galleries.

One of the rooms features many of the photos included in the legendary 1976 exhibition at MoMA. Two other rooms presents the famous portfolio Los Alamos, which resulted from a series of road trips around the Mississippi Delta and all the way to California from 1965 to 1974. The photos on display includes over 150 rare and delicate photographs made through dye-transfer, a near-extinct printing technique, which became the artist’s trademark for allowing him a precise control of color and intense saturation. To those who are already familiar with Eggleston’s work, the exhibition will also feature lesser-known, but still important works from the period.

The show was curated by Thyago Nogueira, and is accompanied by a catalog with texts by musician David Byrne, writer Geoff Dyer, art critic Richard Woodward and the curator, as well as the first Portuguese-language translation of the seminal text by John Szarkowski published in the catalog William Eggleston´s Guide (1976).