Champion of the mundane and orator of the ordinary, William Eggleston, the photographer long credited with legitimising colour photography as an artistic medium, has set his sights on Paris.
See more of Eggleston's Parisian vision
Departing his lifelong home in America’s Deep South, Eggleston has been commissioned by the progressive curators of the Fondation Cartier to produce a photographic diary of his three-year stint in the French Capital.
Paris, Eggleston’s second solo show at the Fondation, will showcase a selection of photographs outlining his gritty and glamorous high-colour, high-contrast view of the city’s streets.
Abandoning the posed and constructed, Eggleston’s ‘shot-gun' approach informs the incidental nature of his photographs. All at once compositionally excellent and abstractedly banal, Eggleston captures the ‘instant' in all its glory - making the most of the minutiae that defines a city.
Alongside his all-encompassing series of photographs, Eggleston will be showing a selection of paintings he has produced in conjunction with Paris - rhythmic, abstract and acutely conscious of colour.
Whilst Paris will always have a place in our hearts, Eggleston has produced an entirely new perspective of the city we thought we knew so well.
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- http//www.fondation.cartier.com
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- 33.1 4218 5650
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- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261, boulevard Raspail
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