3 May 2007 – 19 August 2007

William Egglestone - Portfolios

Eggleston’s oeuvre comprises some ten thousand photographs, of which only very few have been enlarged, exhibited and published to this day. His photographs are characterised by a masterly interpretation of colour. He sees in colour and translates it into virtuoso, pictorial compositions that are intensified through the elaborate technique of dye transfer. Eggleston’s photographic style is borrowed from the aesthetics of the snapshot. He photographs a particular moment in time, capturing whatever happens to seize his attention: trivial, casually charming things or places that he charges atmospherically and intensifies into an ongoing visual novel of the American South. However, his photographs are never documents; but rather autonomous pictures that seek more than anything to satisfy themselves. Laconically, wittily, sometimes melancholically, at other times full of bitter irony, they recount the ugliness and beauty of the world around us, the surface of images and their hidden mysteries. In doing so, each photograph becomes part of an ever-growing, complex cosmos of pictures in which all the subjects are of equal value. »Democratic« is how Eggleston defines this view of the world.

Address

Pinakothek der Moderne
Kunstareal München Barer Strasse 40
80333 München
phone +49 89 23 80 53 60
http://www.pinakothek.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m., closed on Monday

Description of the Museum

With four major museums presenting art, works on paper, architecture and design under one roof, the Pinakothek der Moderne is one of the world’s greatest collections of 20th and 21st century art. The open and spacious building invites visitors to explore, to discover connections and gain new and surprising insights. Temporary exhibits and events from various cultural domains complete the supradisciplinary program.

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