Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris
2017
April 20–September 24
Works by William Eggleston were featured in Autophoto, a major group exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
American car culture has often featured in his work, from shiny hoods and leather interiors to car washes and highways in what have become iconic images. His works in Autophoto were created between 1965 and 1974, just prior to the 1976 solo exhibition Color Photographs by William Eggleston at The Museum of Modern Art in New York—the first major presentation of color photography at the museum.
Dedicated to photography's relationship to the automobile, Autophoto presented 500 works by 100 historic and contemporary artists—Juergen Teller, Lee Friedlander, Walker Evans, Catherine Opie, Andreas Gursky, Eve Arnold, Mary Ellen Mark—and was accompanied by a publication containing over 700 reproductions, critical essays, and artists' quotes. Read more in theBritish Journal of Photography and The Guardian