![“For photographers, the city of Paris must constitute a genre of its own (alongside “nudes” or “botanical”), so perennially photogenic are its streets, skylines, storefronts and people. Here, William Eggleston—“The Father of Color Photography”—offers a brilliant, unusual take on Paris today, with depictions that completely revitalize our sense of this most picturesque of cities. Eggleston spent three years working throughout different seasons, to craft images that reveal surprising and rarely-seen facets of the city, as one might expect from the lens of a photographer most associated with the American South.”
William Eggleston: Paris [Amazon]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw7mh4LguE1qzy7o7o1_400.jpg)
“For photographers, the city of Paris must constitute a genre of its own (alongside “nudes” or “botanical”), so perennially photogenic are its streets, skylines, storefronts and people. Here, William Eggleston—“The Father of Color Photography”—offers a brilliant, unusual take on Paris today, with depictions that completely revitalize our sense of this most picturesque of cities. Eggleston spent three years working throughout different seasons, to craft images that reveal surprising and rarely-seen facets of the city, as one might expect from the lens of a photographer most associated with the American South.”
