William Eggleston: Walker Evans And Henri Cartier-Bresson

William Eggleston William born July 27, 1939. He grew up in a wealthy family on a cotton plantation Mississippi, Tennessee. When he was a teenager he went to a boarding school. He went to school at Vanderbilt University when his friend recognized his artistic values and he began to take photographs. He transferred to Delta State University then later to University of Mississippi. He was influenced by Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson when his pictures were in black and white. When he settled in Memphis Tennessee in 1964 he started taking color photography. He was granted a Guggenheim fellowship in 1974. For the next decade he made thousands of photos about American landscapes and structures. In 1976 he had a career boost in an exhibition