The Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan has nearly doubled its holdings of work by Memphis photographer William Eggleston thanks to a gift from a couple of collectors, The New York Times reports. Last year's "William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008" was one of the most popular photography exhibitions in the Whitney's history, so the museum decided it should stock up on Eggleston.
"This considerably strengthens our holdings of his classic period from the late '60s and early '70s, primarily his color photography shot in his home city of Memphis and around the Mississippi Delta, where he frequently traveled," said Elisabeth Sussman, the Whitney's photography curator. "There are also a number of portraits taken in the 1970s at the time he was filming videos and taking portraits in nightclubs that have rarely been shown."
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