William Eggleston: The Last Dyes

American artist William Eggleston’s discovery of the dye-transfer process in the 1970s—primarily used in advertising at the time—was crucial to his move from primarily working in black-and-white to producing color photographs due the richness of tonal depth and color saturation.

In this video, dye-transfer specialists Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli take you behind the scenes of the labor-intensive technique behind the works in William Eggleston: The Last Dyes, the last major group of photographs ever to be printed using this method.

William Eggleston: The Last Dyes is on view at David Zwirner Los Angeles from November 16th, 2024 to February 1st, 2025.

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