Bill and Andra, Memphis, 1991
Maude Schuyler Clay
Sometimes one comes across a photograph that conveys story so beautifully and completely that it stands alone in its power. Words are made to seem redundant before the fullness and depth of the image. This photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay, taken of the great photographer William Eggleston and his daughter Andra, is such a picture. It speaks to us of secrets, in the sense that all inner life is secret. The expressive gazes of father and daughter each contain multitudes, and between them and in the close rhyming of their hands and arms, we feel the deep abiding bond of family. (Michelle Anderson)
Maude Schuyler Clay
Maude was born in Mississippi, and assisted photographer William Eggleston. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the National Museum for Women in the Arts, among others. This photograph appears in her book, Mississippi History, published by Steidl in 2015.