"Eggleston was a man of his time, the 1960s. In the 1960s, street photography was at its zenith, and Pop Art dominated painting and sculpture. Eggleston fused elements of both street photography and Pop Art into his oeuvre. Like Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and Stephen Shore, Eggleston shot from the hip, blending the new apolitical snapshot aesthetic with the older and more traditional stylings of Cartier-Bresson."
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University of Mississippi Museum and Historic Houses, The Beautiful Mysterious: The Extraordinary Gaze of William Eggleston. 2019. ‎Ann J. Abadie, p. 176.
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