William Eggleston: "From Black and White to Color"

The exhibition gathers about one hundred prints in black-and-white and color, borrowed from various collections and from the artist’s archives. It shows the evolution, the breaks and above all the radicalism that gradually appeared in the photographer’s work when he took up color photography in the late 1960s. We sometimes find the same obsessions, or recurring themes, such as ceilings, food, waiting, as well as skewed and unconventional framing which he already used in his earliest works. It is the first exhibition of William Eggleston’s work at the Musée de l’Elysée, coproduced with the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.