‘He couldn’t be happier’: celebrating William Eggleston’s incredible photography

A new exhibition brings together new dye-transfer prints of the classically American photographer’s work As a small child, Winston Eggleston was only vaguely aware that his father, William Eggleston, was a famous photographer. For all he knew other children also had parents who were friends with Dennis Hopper, or who spent hours tinkering on a piano between occasional, fevered photography sprees, or who had taken the world’s most iconic picture of a red ceiling. “It’s all normal to you, because you don’t know anything different,” Winston recently recalled. “Looking back, I was lucky.” Continue reading...

By J Oliver Conroy