Announcing a new Meetup for The Light Chasers of SoCal!

What: William Eggleston's Photography @ 2 Galleries

When: Saturday, November 20,[masked]:00 AM

Where: Edward Cella Art & Architecture Gallery
6018 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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Lets check out two wonderful exhibits of William Eggleston's photography at two places across the street from each other.

Photographers bio here

First we will go to the Edward Cella Art & Architecture Gallery and check out the 40 images of Eggleston's, then we will go across the street to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and check out more than 200 of Eggleston's work. $15 to get into LACMA. Afterwards we will grab a bite to eat nearby.

First Location:

Edward Cella Art & Architecture Gallery
6018 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Second Location:

LACMA
5905 Wilshire Blvd


Edward Cella Art + Architecture announces an exhibition of photographs by noted photographer William Eggleston. Entitled William Eggleston: American Photographer, the exhibition presents a rich offering of unique and historic prints dating from 1965 through 1985 including several of Eggleston's most iconic images. Designed to present insights into the photographer's working methods and philosophy, the exhibition is especially timely as it runs concurrently with William Eggleston: Democratic Camera Photographs and Video,[masked] presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.



Eggleston is widely recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century owing to his innovative and unconventional approach to composition and early adoption and mastery of color photography. Over a more than thirty-year career, the artist's selection of seemingly commonplace subject matter lays bare the fleeting qualities of human existence while offering a tender compendium of his home, the American South. Eggleston offers epiphany-like insight into the everyday. The interplay of opulent color and nonchalant forms in Eggleston's photographs honors his subjects while providing an additional layer of meaning, turning them into stunning visual metaphors of an alienated world.



With an eye not to glorify the world in front of his lens, but with the intent to show things for what they really look like, Eggleston states, "I think I had often wondered what other things see -- if they saw like we see. And I've tried to make a lot of different photographs as if a human did not take them." Refining this idea, exhibition curator, Carole Thompson, notes, "Eggleston's color images flaunt their apparent formlessness. Although the artist acknowledges a debt to Henri Cartier-Bresson, his photographs reject Bresson's decisive moments."



Representing a collaboration between Carole Thompson Fine Art and Edward Cella Art + Architecture, the exhibition of more than forty vintage photographs begins with several one of a kind black-and-white, hand-developed photographs of the 1960s and also includes pristine examples of the vivid dye transfer work of the early 1970s. To Eggleston, the richness of photography stems from the unexpected and uncontrollable, and the exhibition's inclusion of the artist's first experiments in color photography, unique Chromogenic-coupler prints developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, document his breakthrough with impromptu encounters with various individuals and scenes. Comprehensive in nature yet approachable in scale, the exhibition features selected prints from six of the artist's influential series, including the landmark 1976 catalogue, William Eggleston's Guide,Graceland portfolio, Los Alamos series, The Democratic Forest, and, for the first time in Los Angeles, offers examples from the artist's Berlin Series. His oeuvre has profoundly influenced generations of photographers, as well as critics, curators, writers, cinematographers and filmmakers.

Text From LACMA: Cost: $15

William Eggleston is widely recognized as a master of color photography, a poet of the mundane, and proponent of the democratic treatment of his subjects. His inventive use of color and spontaneous compositions profoundly influenced the generation of photographers that followed him, as well as critics, curators, and writers concerned with photographs.
This exhibition includes more than two hundred photographs, the artist's little-known video work Stranded in Canton, his early black-and-white photographs of the sixties, and the vivid dye-transfer work of the early seventies, as seen in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark catalogue of 1976, William Eggleston's Guide. Highlights from the last twenty years includes selections from the Graceland series and The Democratic Forest, Eggleston's great, dense anthology of the quotidian. The exhibition includes a special selection of recent work taken in Los Angeles. LACMA's curator of the exhibition is Edward Robinson, Wallis Annenberg Photography department.

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, in association with Haus der Kunst, Munich. The Los Angeles presentation was made possible by LACMA's Wallis Annenberg Director's Endowment Fund, The Jonathan Sobel & Marcia Dunn Foundation, the Eggleston Artistic Trust and Cheim & Read

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