A manifestation of the artist's «democratic» view of the camera, the series offers prime examples of his timeless aesthetic and
mastery of color photography, through visions of unsuspecting architecture and infrastructure.
Artists kept playing catch - up as
color increasingly swamped popular culture and amateur
photography; many came to take their cues from both, and in 1976 Museum
of Modern Art
photography curator John Szarkowski gave William Eggleston a major solo exhibition for his now - iconic photos combining a snapshot aesthetic with a
mastery of the dye imbibition process that «allowed Eggleston to draw attention to
color without making it the subject
of the photograph,» Rohrbach writes.
Moreover, his technical
mastery of black - and - white and
color photography, as well as the platinum printing process, earned him accolades in the realms
of both commercial and fine art.