
William J. Eggleston
Acting
Biography
William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium.
Known For

Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
Restless

On the 8th floor of the Fondation Cartier in Paris, Raymond Depardon's film features a minute of silence with eight artists and scientists: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William Eggleston, Takeshi Kitano, Ron Mueck, Jean Michel Alberola, Agnès Varda and Misha Gromov.
The 8th Floor

Documentary about William Eggleston, a famous modern American photographer.
William Eggleston in the Real World

A short documentary portrait of the artist William Eggleston; focusing particularly on his musical endeavours and his album Musik that was released through Secretly Canadian in 2017.
William Eggleston: Musik

In 1973, photographer William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and took to documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans.
Stranded in Canton

This mesmerizing documentary, a profile of photographer William Eggleston and his work, puts particular focus on one hugely pivotal moment in not only his own career, but in the art world at large. Although it failed to inspire critics at the time of its unveiling, Eggleston’s simply titled exhibit "Color Photographs by William Eggleston" is widely recognized as legitimizing and basically conceptualizing color photography in modern art and entertainment.