5 x 7 (Signed First Edition)

EGGLESTON, William and Michael Almereyda

ISBN 10: 1931885486 / ISBN 13: 9781931885485

Published by Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM, 2006

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 96 pages. Features text by Michael Almereyda along with the text of his conversation with Eggleston. A collection of color and black and white plates of a wide ranging images all taken with a 5 x 7 camera. Includes a total of 57 four color plates. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket and with laid in promotional poster that is in fine condition. Signed by Eggleston on the colophon page.

Seller Inventory # 204570

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 5 x 7 (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Santa Fe, NM
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931885486
• ISBN 13: 9781931885485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Never-before-seen black-and-white nightclub photographs enliven the typical Eggleston oeuvre

This monograph on American photographer William Eggleston highlights his photos taken on a large-format 5 x 7 camera in the early 1970s. It features both color and black-and-white photographs, the latter of which are a never-before-seen series of portraits taken inside the nightclubs that Eggleston frequented. Museum director and contemporary art curator Walter Hopps―an early champion for Eggleston―characterized these images as “offhand and spontaneous but insistently stark; their brutality is heightened by the absence of color.” The volume also features Eggleston in conversation with filmmaker Michael Almereyda, who directed a documentary on the artist in 2005.
William Eggleston (born 1939) encountered photography and abstract expressionism while studying at Vanderbilt and the University of Mississippi. Inspired by the work of Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston began working with color film in the 1960s and is credited with popularizing its use among artistic photographers. His work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Michael Almereyda (born 1959) originally studied art history at Harvard before leaving the university to pursue filmmaking. He is best known for his 2000 adaptation of Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke and Julia Stiles. His 2005 documentary William Eggleston in the Real World was nominated for a Gotham Award.

Review

Most compelling is the way in which each person is at once magnifiedlaid bare and vulnerable --Johanna Burton, Artforum, 2005. The people Eggleston photographed are clearly denizens of the same realm. . . . Each of these individuals is subtly different. --Walter Hopps

The people Eggleston photographed are clearly denizens of the same realm. . . . Each of these individuals is subtly different. --Walter Hopps

The people Eggleston photographed are clearly denizens of the same realm. . . . Each of these individuals is subtly different. --Walter Hopps