Egglestons Guide by Eggleston William, Signed (5 results)

Second edition. 23 x 25cm 112pp very good hardback, signed by William Eggleston on the title page. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 110 pages. Gold lettering on the spine and cover. Color pastedown photograph on the front cover. Color photographs throughout, following Szarkowski's essay. Title page and essay are printed on green paper. This is a reprint of Eggleston's important 1976 exhibition catalogue. This copy has no date on the title page, but the copyright page lists 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2011. It also has a modernized 13 digit ISBN on the title page. In all other ways, it is an exact facsimile of the first edition (although it is slightly thicker than the first edition - a copy of which I have in another listing). This copy is signed on the title page, 'To our future friendship!! William Eggleston'. This is a sentiment he often expresses in inscriptions. There is no recipient named. Please feel free to email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed to " My precious friend Helen Joyce. William Eggleston". Boards with paste down photograph & Gilt. 112pp, 48 color and 1 b&w illustration. This copy features a warm inscription from the photographer and very scarce thus. Tiny nick at front panel. A very small soil spot at the margin. Probably from a thumb. Otherwise a fine copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 111p quarto, illustrated. A fine copy in original black cloth. Inscribed for "A & J W. Eggleston Sept 1982".

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Eggleston on the title page. Publisher's faux leather with pictorial inset on front cover, titles in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to cover, lean to spine, corner clipped from title page and previous owner name to dedication page. The catalog published in conjunction with Eggleston's 1976 exhibition a the The Museum of Modern Art, featuring images of everyday life in the American South. Roth 101.