William Eggleston's Guide (Signed)

EGGLESTON, William and John Szarkowski

ISBN 10: 0870703781 / ISBN 13: 9780870703782

Edité par The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002

Second edition. Hardcover. Eggleston's first book, a landmark monograph of color images from suburbia which was published to coincide with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. Features text by John Szarkowski. A fine copy in boards with color image inset into the front cover. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Eggleston on the title page. Uncommon as such. N° de réf. du vendeur 203297

Synopsis :

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with colour photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average person's Instamatic pictures from the family album. These photographs heralded a new mastery of the use of colour as an integral element of photographic composition. Bound in a textured cover inset with a photograph of a tricycle and stamped with yearbook-style gold lettering, the Guide contained 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971 and displayed a deceptively casual, actually superrefined look at the surrounding world.

Here are people, landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's home town of Memphis - an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal-fired barbecue shooting up in flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle; the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, grey-haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint-green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table. For this edition of William Eggleston's Guide, The Museum of Modern Art has made new colour separations from the original 35mm slides, producing a facsimile edition in which the colour will be freshly responsive to the photographer's intentions.

À propos de l?auteur: John Szarkowski is Director Emeritus of the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the author of numerous books and a photographer in his own right.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : William Eggleston's Guide (Signed)
Éditeur : The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Date d'édition : 2002
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Signé : Signé par l'auteur