William Eggleston
PhotographerKnown for: color photography of the American South
William Eggleston's 1976 exhibition at MoMA — the first solo show of color photographs in the museum's history — remains a turning point in the acceptance of color photography as a serious artistic medium. He has photographed the American South since the 1960s, recording ordinary suburban and rural subjects with a formal precision that elevates the unremarkable. His use of dye transfer printing, with its saturated color, was central to the work's visual impact.
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Kodak
Kodachrome 64 is a color reversal (slide) film discontinued by Kodak in 2010 after more than seven decades of production. Its dye-based structure produced colors with exceptional stability and saturation, and it was the predominant film in professional color photography for much of the postwar period.
“Eggleston's early color work, including the photographs in his 1976 MoMA exhibition, was shot on Kodachrome; discussed in "William Eggleston's Guide" (1976).”
Kodak
In production since 1954, Tri-X 400 is a black-and-white film whose grain structure, broad exposure latitude, and response to push processing made it the dominant film in photojournalism and street photography for decades.
“Eggleston used Kodak Tri-X for his early black-and-white work before moving to color; documented in retrospective accounts of his practice.”
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