NEW YORK, NY.- The American photographer William Eggleston (born
1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color
photography. Now, 50 years later, he is arguably its greatest
exemplar. At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William
Eggleston at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the work of
this idiosyncratic artist, whose influences are drawn from
disparate if surprisingly complementary sourcesfrom Walker Evans
and Henri Cartier-Bresson in photography to Bach and late
Baroque music. Many of Egglestons most recognized photographs
are lush studies of the social and physical landscape found in
the Mississippi delta region that is his home. From this base,
the artist explores the awesome and, at times, the raw visual
poetics of the American vernacular. The exhibition celebrates
the fall 2012 acquisition of 36 dye transfer prints by Eggleston
that dramatically expanded the Metropolitan Museums collection
of this major American artists work. It added the entire suite
of Egglestons remarkable fi