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Photographing the ‘Boring,’ the History and Photography of William Eggleston

All photographs copyright Eggleston Artistic Trust William Eggleston may be one of the most celebrated and misunderstood photographers in history. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1939 and raised in Mississippi, Eggleston was an introverted man born into a wealthy aristocratic family of former plantation owners. Eggleston was influenced by Robert Frank’s The Americans, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s

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Pounding the Pavement – The History and Photography of Garry Winogrand

Updated July 2026 · by James Maher, street photographer and photography historian Garry Winogrand defined what most people picture when they hear “street photography” — the 28mm lens, the tilted frames, the crowded American sidewalks photographed from inside the crowd. I’m James Maher, a street photographer and photography historian, and after 20 years of photographing

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