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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Lifestyle
J Oliver Conroy

‘He couldn’t be happier’: celebrating William Eggleston’s incredible photography

William Eggleston - Untitled, 1971
William Eggleston - Untitled, 1971 Photograph: William Eggleston/Courtesy Eggleston Artistic Trust and David Zwirner

As a small child, Winston Eggleston was only vaguely aware that his father, William Eggleston, was a famous photographer. For all he knew, other children also had parents who were friends with Dennis Hopper, or who spent hours tinkering on a piano between occasional, fevered photography sprees, or who had taken the world’s most iconic picture of a red ceiling.

“It’s all normal to you, because you don’t know anything different,” Winston recently recalled. “Looking back, I was lucky.”

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