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An Eggleston to Dye For

An auction at Phillips offers a rare collection of William Eggleston prints, made with an arcane and all-but-extinct process to amp up the vividness of everyday life.

William Eggleston
This week, Phillips opens an exhibition of 43 lots of Eggleston’s work, signed by the photographer, for an auction on March 18. These dye transfer prints are Stricherz and Malli’s own printer’s proofs—the apex of the artist’s intent in the hierarchy of fidelity and expression, and the reference point by which all other examples can be measured. Photo: Taylor Hill/Getty Images
Marion Maneker
March 11, 2025

Guy Stricherz and Irene Malli are retiring. They’ve had a great run. In 1981, Guy started the Color Vision Imaging Laboratory, in what we now call Nolita, but which was then just Little Italy, to make dye transfer prints of color photographs. An offshoot of the Technicolor film process that revolutionized the movie industry, dye transfer printing was invented in 1946; the process dominated the advertising industry and graphic arts for nearly half a century, until 1994, when Kodak discontinued making the materials for the process and sold its remaining stock of film, paper, and dyes to master printers like Stricherz.