Exhibition of William Eggleston's colour and black-and-white photographs, featuring his pioneering dye-transfer prints and early work.
William Eggleston is on at The Photographers' Gallery from 14 October 2026 to 21 February 2027. The show, All That Goes Unnoticed, brings together his dye-transfer prints alongside lesser-known black-and-white and Brownie images from the early 1960s and 1970s. It's organised by the Gallery in partnership with the Wilson Centre for Photography.
Eggleston was born in Memphis in 1939 and is one of the pioneers of colour photography. He's credited with a 'democratic way of seeing' that helped establish colour as a serious artistic language and redefined how the ordinary could be represented. Much of his best-known work was produced using the dye-transfer process, a labour-intensive method no longer in use that gave him extraordinary control over saturation and tonal relationships. Rooted in Memphis and the wider American South, his images of roadside diners, suburban streets and domestic interiors reveal the isolation and alienation of post-war American life. He described himself as 'at war with the obvious'.
The exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of Eggleston's landmark 1976 exhibition and book William Eggleston's Guide, which was curated by John Szarkowski at MoMA. By putting the dye-transfer prints alongside the earlier black-and-white and Brownie work, the show lets you see the range he worked across during those early decades.
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In person, tickets are £12, with concessions at £9 and Art Fund members at £6. If you'd rather see it online, it's £10, concessions £7.50 and Art Fund £5, and members go free. It runs through to 21 February, so there's plenty of time to fit it in.
