Curated by Malia Schramm, the 35 prints from three private collections in William Eggleston: Black and White to Color, at Jackson Fine Art through February 26, provide a unique glimpse into a 20-year span of the career of a photographer whose iconic color photography earned him a place in history when his 1976 solo show at the Museum of Modern Art confirmed color photography as an artistic medium.
One of the photographs, “Untitled (woman in yellow dress),” was originally made in 1973, the same year as Eggleston’s legendary “The Red Ceiling.” This 2007 print features similarly saturated color in the dye-transfer process that made that photograph groundbreaking in its use of a process previously reserved for commercial uses. But the awkwardly titled 1996 print “Untitled from Portfolio 10.D.70.V1 (trophies)” dates originally from 1968, and evinces a similar interest in unusual color and mundane subject matter.
