William Eggleston was born in July 27 1939 at Memphis in Tennessee in U.S. He is named as the father of color photography, he use to take photos of everyday object and scenes, he was one of the fist photographer to introduce colour to the land of art photography, but also to invent a visual language composed of gas stations, bar lights, parking lots, shopping carts, and motel rooms couches, that exceeded the power of traditional black-and-white landscapes and studio portraits. Eggleston's passion in photography started after a gift, Canon Rangefinder-35mm, from one of his friend who recognized his talent and his art inclination. His early works obviously are in black and white for the influence of artist like Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson which was one of his favorite artist, and the the only one who he really admired.

In 1965 he began to experiment with the colour photography, with his Canon and Leica cameras and then in 1967 he moved to New York for his projects. In the 1970s he discovered dye-transfer printing and started using it extensively, because that process allowed him to better control the colour saturation in his photographs. In 1974 he was granted a Guggenheim fellowship. At the beginning his art wasn't appreciated to the critics that describe his work banal and lacking in artistry. The immediate reviews of his first big show at MoMA in 1976 weren't good; but Eggleston never changed his point of view or his photography. He wasn't interest to back and white photography and photojournalism at all, he found these kind of images not good at art; Photos of landscape by artist as Ansel Adams or Walker Evans always boring him. After the first impact was just a matter of time, and Eggleston's works were acclaimed, and he was recognized even abroad as a great innovative artist.

Then in the 1980s he traveled in the U.S. And in Europe to achieve his desire to show in his pictures places without considerations or without a specific meaning or beauty. In the same decade he traveled to Kenya and he created a body of work called ''The streets are clean on Jupiter'' they never been published, in fact is not the only series that wasn't show. ''They've never been published. There are a lot of unseen projects. When a project is finished, I often physically, and in my mind, set it aside,intending something to happen with it, something that does or does not always happen. Now, a lot of these are being resurrected for the public.'' he said.

His photography and philosophy can be understand either banal or mysterious. Eggleston 's photos show common place as supermarket or motel but them are narrative and theater with their extremely saturated colour. For the artist the colour had always take a important part of his live because he is color-blind. It Was probably for this that he was so determinate to introduce the colour to the art photography, he wanted to recounting the U.S. With the power of colour.

Eggleston also won the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 1988, the Gold Medal for Photography from the National Arts Club in 2003 and was awarded the Getty Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography in 2004 and in 2013 was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards .

Other his series:14 Pictures (1974), Election Eve (1977), Morals of Vision(1978), Wedgwood Blue (1979), Troubled Waters (1980), Southern Suite (1981) and William Eggleston’s Graceland(1984).