EXHIBITION // WILLIAM EGGLESTON - THE LAST DYES // DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY // NEW YORK

© William Eggleston : The Last Dyes, David Zwirner, New York, 2026

William Eggleston : The Last Dyes - Jan. 15 to Mar. 07, 2025

David Zwirner Gallery
533 West 19th Street
New York

www.davidzwirner.com

David Zwirner is pleased to announce The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye-transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the gallery’s 533 West 19th Street location in New York. Eggleston pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography in the 1970s, and—as the title suggests—these photographs are the final prints ever made of Eggleston’s images using this analog process. The presentation itself constitutes the last major group of photographs ever to be produced using this printing method, making it a unique opportunity to see a number of works by Eggleston in the format in which he originally presented them.

“I was reading the price list of this lab in Chicago and it advertised ‘from the cheapest to the ultimate print’. The ultimate print was a dye-transfer.... The color saturation and the quality of the ink was overwhelming. I couldn't wait to see what a plain Eggleston picture would look like with the same process. Every photograph I subsequently printed with the process seemed ... better than the previous one.” —William Eggleston in conversation with editor and writer Mark Holborn, 1991

Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston (b. 1939) has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. His vividly saturated photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. One of the foremost practitioners in the medium’s history, Eggleston continues to exert an influence on contemporary visual culture at large. .....