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William Eggleston Cracks Up Audience at the Corcoran
William Eggleston was on his best behavior Wednesday evening at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In front of a packed auditorium, the “father of color photography” sat for an hour and a half talking with his friend, Michael Almereyda, the director and producer of the documentary William Eggleston in the Real World. While flipping through the slides of Eggleston’s best and least known photographs of the past 40 years, Almereyda discussed the pictures and drew Eggleston into dialogue about the work. As the audience soon found out, speaking with the Eggleston about his photographs is no easy task. He wears a genteel uniform of bow-ties and suits (I’ve even seen him at a lecture wearing a pair of white gloves), and he speaks in a sweetly aristocratic southern accent. But when it comes to talking about his work, the man seems more barracuda than gentleman.
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