William EgglestonLong before snapshot aesthetics became fashionable William Eggleston started to take pictures of his hometown Memphis, Tennessee. He discovered new and unexpected forms of beauty in the seemingly mundane surroundings of everyday life. Wistfully exploring his native South, he pioneered the use of color photography, which at the time had mainly been used for advertising and magazine work. This handsome book presents a long overdue survey of his luminous photographs spanning from 1967 to the present, drawn primarily from Eggleston's own archives. A kitchen sink, a country road, a girl lying in the grass: Eggleston's deceptively simple images reveal hitherto hidden and intricate pleasures of the visible world. In an insightful interview Eggleston recounts the development of his approach to photography, while the introductory essay by writer and curator Thomas Weski places Eggleston's work in the context of his contemporaries. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Albert Museum American Images American Photographers American South Angeles Art Museum artistic Atlanta banal Berlin Caldecot Chubb Camera chromogenic coupler prints color photography Contemporary Photography Corcoran Gallery Curator Democratic Forest dye transfer prints edition of 15 Eggleston's photographs Elvis England Erna and Victor Eve's Bayou film Fraenkel Gallery Gallery of Art Garry Winogrand Germany Göteborg Graceland Gunilla Knape Hasselblad Award winner Hasselblad Center Haworth-Booth Houston Humlebæk interested John Szarkowski Josef Koudelka Kunst Lars Hall Lee Friedlander Lennart Nilsson London Lunn Gallery Magazine Mark Holborn Memphis Brooks Museum Middendorf Gallery Modern Art Museum Folkwang Museum of American Museum of Art Museum of Modern Museum of Photography Photo photographer's picture published Richard Robert Miller Gallery Rochester Santa Barbara snapshot subject matter Sweden Tennessee Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Traveled Ute Eskildsen Victor Hasselblad Victor Hasselblad Foundation Victoria and Albert Walker Evans Washington William Christenberry William Eggleston William Eggleston's Guide York