William Eggleston's photographs were once voted the most hated of the year – but this new retrospective proves just how wrong critics can be
September 13, 2026
Now 87, William Eggleston is known as the “Godfather of Color Photography” for helping establish it as a legitimate, high-art medium. But that was by no means an easy task, as a new exhibition in London, England, reminds us.
William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed, which runs at The Photographers’ Gallery from October to February, is a career-spanning look at the American…
