While considerable attention over the previous two decades has been paid to the influences of “early” color photography upon the direction of the medium and contemporary art in general, almost all critical analysis through writings and exhibitions have focused upon works created in the 1970s and after, most notably those works made for and after the now famous, 1976 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Photographs by William Eggleston, curated by John Szarkowski. This MOMA exhibition set the groundwork for defining a new purpose for color photography – one that focused more upon the conceptual implications...