WILLIAM EGGLESTON ; BEFORE COLOR

Eggleston, william

ISBN 10: 3869301228 / ISBN 13: 9783869301228

Published by Steidl, Germany, 2010

About this Item

23 x 26cm 210pp near fine hardback with a short text by Dave Hickey, the top of one page has a few lines of neat handwriting, the opposing page, has a thin line. Black and white reproductions immaculate throughout.

Seller Inventory # 26744

Bibliographic Details

• Title: WILLIAM EGGLESTON ; BEFORE COLOR
• Publisher: Steidl, Germany
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3869301228
• ISBN 13: 9783869301228
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near fine

About this title

Synopsis

A few years ago a box was found in the archives of the William Eggleston Artistic Trust in Memphis, containing Eggleston's earliest photography―remarkably, in black and white. The photos were subsequently exhibited and sold at Cheim & Read gallery in New York. This book reunites these photos in their entirety, and shows the artistic beginnings of a pioneer of contemporary photography. In the late 1950s, Eggleston began photographing suburban Memphis using high-speed 35 mm black-and-white film, developing the style and motifs that would come to shape his pivotal color work, including diners, supermarkets, domestic interiors and people engaged in seemingly trivial and banal situations. Now, 50 years later, all the plates in Before Color have been scanned from vintage prints developed by Eggleston in his own darkroom. In the mid-1960s Eggleston discovered color film and was immediately satisfied with the results: "And by God, it worked. Just overnight." Eggleston then abandoned black-and-white photography, but its fundamental influence on his practice is undeniable.