Eggleston firstly started to photograph in black and white film and we are able to see a small influence of Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Frank. Later, round 1965, he later start to experiment colour film. In some things, similar to Stephen Shore work, William Eggleston is a photographer who can in an extraordinary way, capture the colors of the most trivial things. In 1976 William Eggleston made history by is work to be exhibited in colour in the New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). During this time, Eggleston, was introduced to Andy Warhol, with hom he started a long relationship and became familiar with Warhol's circle. By this time, Eggleston, started to experiment video. He produced a mixed of several hours of tender shots of his children at home with shots of drunken parties, public urination and a man biting off a chicken's head before a cheering crowd. Not having a specific theme, Eggleston's photographs show scenes of the day to day, friends and photographers. Even though it seems impossible by having this amazing results of photographs, Eggleston only takes one photograph of one thing, so that, the next one is waiting somewhere else.
Source
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/art/william-eggleston/
http://hateface.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/before-colour-william-eggleston-in-black-and-white/
http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo24/william_eggleston.htm
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