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Born in Memphis and raised in Sumner Mississippi William Eggleston was even in youth interested in art and observing the world around him than in the popular southern boyhood pursuits of hunting and sports While he dabbled in obtaining an education at a succession of colleges including Vanderbilt and Ole Miss he became interested in the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier Bresson and began taking black and white photographs with the Leica camera a friend had given him He began experimenting with color photography in 1965 Although processes for color photography had existed in various forms since the turn of the century at that time it still was not considered a medium for fine art and was mostly relegated to the worl Born in Memphis and raised in Sumner Mississippi William Eggleston was even in youth interested in art and observing the world around him than in the popular southern boyhood pursuits of hunting and sports While he dabbled in obtaining an education at a succession of colleges including Vanderbilt and Ole Miss he became interested in the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier Bresson and began taking black and white photographs with the Leica camera a friend had given him He began experimenting with color photography in 1965 Although processes for color photography had existed in various forms since the turn of the century at that time it still was not considered a medium for fine art and was mostly relegated to the world of advertising Eggleston was the first photographer to have a solo show of color prints at the MoMA in 1976 Accompanied by the release of the book William Eggleston s Guide it was a watershed moment in the history of photography site_link In April 1979 a book of 15 color photographs by William Eggleston was published in a limited edition of twenty The photographs were taken from the second chapter of an unpublished larger work entitled Wedgewood Blue Alongside his publications Chromes 2011 Los Alamos Revisited 2012 and the forthcoming Democratic Forest 2014 and Election Eve 2016 all documenting Eggleston s life work At Zenith constitutes a calm and experimental intermezzo from Eggleston s familiar loudness and intensity of colors The photographer pointed his camera at the sky to focus on the clouds rolling by William Eggleston At Zenith