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New York Magazine reports that William Eggleston is even more colorful than his groundbreaking photographs.

Bill Eggleston has a show at the Whitney?” asks a woman at the bar of the Lamplighter Lounge in Memphis. She practically spits out her Budweiser. “I hate his shit!”

The bartender, Shirley, slices potatoes in the kitchen. A young couple are making out at a back table.

Eggleston has a precarious relationship with the Lamp, one of his favorite haunts. In fact, he’s barred from entering. “I got really drunk one time,” he admits, “and I threw a hamburger at Shirley, who had just made it. But we’re still friends.”

Full story courtesy of New York Magazine:Southern Gothic