William Eggleston in the Real World. 2005. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda

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William Eggleston in the Real World. 2005. USA. Directed by Michael Almereyda

William Eggleston in the Real World. 2005. USA. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. 86 min.

William Eggleston, an American photographer born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, is credited with the rise of color photography in the US and the so-called American vernacular style—arresting images of ordinary objects such as gas stations, soda cans strewn on the side of highways, vending machines, and street signs. While teaching at Harvard in the mid-1970s, Eggleston (who was the subject of a major MoMA exhibition in 1976) became enamored of his trademark dye-transfer photographic printing.

This film accompanies A View from the Vaults: Recent Film Acquisitions.

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