CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2016

'The Greats' — William Eggleston on the Cover of T Magazine

"Brilliant, confounding and heartbreakingly soulful," pioneering American photographer William Eggleston is featured on one of seven unique T Magazine covers this weekend. In his profile, Augusten Burroughs calls Eggleston "a self-taught photographer who has succeeded in proving all his savage, elitist and uncomprehending original critics — including The New York Times — utterly, deliciously wrong. In his pressed suit he stands vindicated, fire bursting from his fingertips as he lights another American Spirit, a flesh-and-blood world changer. Everywhere he looks he notices things others miss. 'I see great pictures all the time,' he says, and that is unequivocally dazzling." A selection of photographs from Eggleston's monumental Democratic Forest series will be on view starting Thursday, October 27 at David Zwirner gallery. Eggleston will sign copies of the beautifully edited and beautifully produced accompanying monograph Saturday, October 22 from 3-5 PM at the gallery. He will sign again on Wednesday, October 26 from 4-6 PM at The Strand, hosted by publisher Gerhard Steidl.

Above: cover photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans.