William Eggleston - KO

William Eggleston was born on July 27, 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, although he was raised in Sumner, Mississippi. He is an American photographer, known for his color photography. His early photography career was influences by Henri Cartier-Bresson's book "The Decisive Moment" and by Robert Frank. 

Although known for his color photography today, he originally started out with black and white photography. For the most part, William Eggleston developed his photography on his own, but William Christenberry of the Memphis College of Art initially introduced him to color photography. In 1973 and 1974, William Eggleston taught at Harvard and there he discovered dye-transfer printing, which he used from there on out. The photograph above, entitled "The Red Ceiling", is Eggleston's first experience with using dye-transfer printing and the reason he fell in love with the technique.