CULTURAS IN VITRO
Kodachrome Moment: How William Eggleston's revolutionary exhibition changed everything.
The show was a milestone, an annunciation of the coming of color; thereafter, black and white would come to seem slightly quaint and precious - evocative, as it is in, say, Cindy Sherman's film stills, of a distant past. New art photography would be almost all chromatic: Nan Goldin, Mitch Epstein, Richard Prince, and Andreas Gursky all owe the ready acceptance of their work - though not their work itself - to Eggleston's breakthrough.
Now, I'll ask you to guess what year all this happened - and bear in mind that color movies became common in the '30s and color television was first broadcast in 1955. So the first one-man show of color photographs at the high temple of modern vanguard photography was…?
1976.