"William Eggleston's Guide" was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at ...
Containing 150 recent photographs by the American photographer William Eggleston, this volume provides a sequence of images which form an almost autobiographic narrative, beginning with pictures of Eggleston's home territory in the Mississippi Delta and radiating out across the USA.
Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. In 1966 he changed from black and white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessors. John Sarkowski, when he was curator of ...
"Los Alamos" presents a series of photos that have never before been shown, yet it contains a blueprint of Eggleston's aesthetics, his subtle use of subdued color hues, the casual elegance of his trenchant observations of the mysteries of the mundane.
William Eggleston's latest monograph features photographs taken during the early 1970s using a large format 5 X 7 camera. While the book includes imagery typical of the Eggleston oeuvre-streetscapes, parked automobiles, portraits of the strange and disenfranchised-the book also offers never-before-published photographs taken in the nightclubs ...
Long 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 ...
This book features the never-before-published pictures of horses by William Eggleston, who is widely regarded as the most influential figure in contemporary color photography.
Born in 1939 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he still lives, William Eggleston is widely considered one of America's most important photographers. His 1976 one-man exhibition, Photographs by William Eggleston, at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, marked a turning point in the history of photography: this was when colour photography gained ...
A collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South and through to his most recent work in England. William Eggleston shocked the art world with his book and exhibition "William Eggleston's Guide" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976.
For photographers, the city of Paris must constitute a genre of its own (alongside "nudes" or "botanical"), so perennially photogenic are its streets, skylines, storefronts and people. Here, William Eggleston--"The Father of Color Photography"--offers a brilliant, unusual take on Paris today, with depictions that completely revitalize our sense of ...
1902. With views of the author's statue of Nathan Hale; Portraits of Hale's contemporaries and of kindred characters; also three drawings by W. R. Leigh. Partridge, American sculptor and lecturer and writer chiefly on art subjects. Partridge writes that this book is not a conventional biography of a Revolutionary hero, with cuts of tombstones and ...
BCR's Shelf2Life American Civil War Collection is a unique and exciting collection of pre-1923 titles focusing on the American Civil War and the people and events surrounding it. From memoirs and biographies of notable military figures to firsthand accounts of famous battles and in-depth discussions of slavery, this collection is a remarkable ...
A collection of photographs chosen from Eggleston's earliest photographs taken in the American South and through to his most recent work in England. William Eggleston shocked the art world with his book and exhibition "William Eggleston's Guide" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: College & University Press
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good+ with no dust jacket. Hardcover, in Very Good + condition, no jacket, no stamps or writing, Edited for the Modern Reader by William Randel, good solid binding, clean unmarked pages, a nice looking book, ; The Masterworks of Literature Series. read more
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Richard Watson Gilder, Editor; Contributions By F. Mitchell, H.H. [Helen Hunt Jackson], William C. Conant, Edward Eggleston,...
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Edition: First edition thus
Binding: Stiff Printed Wraps
Publisher: Century Company,
Date Published: 1883.
Description: Very Good. Single issue, Small quarto, 10" tall, pages 640 to 800 + 26 ads, stiff illustrated wraps. A very good, clean, sturdy soft cover magazine with minor shelf wear and rubbing, light exterior surface soiling to the cover, back strip chipping at top and bottom of spine and a small chip to the cover fore-edge; internal binding solid, paper clean and lightly yellowed. This is an original copy with all of the editorial material and advertisements. Including Mitchell's 'Cape Cod, ' part III ... read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: Wraps
Publisher: The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Date Published: 1977
Description: Good; front wrap has some faint orangy (food? ) stains near spine and a scuff near top edge; a little bumping of forecorners; a little wave to entire pamphlet from top to bottom. Pages are clean and bright; 3 tipped-in photos are in perfect condition. Staple-bound, unpaginated (8 leaves); edition limited to 2, 000 copies. The photos in this exhibition were taken within three weeks of the 1976 presidential election in and around Plains, Georgia, the hometown Jimmy Carter, who was then running ... read more
Binding: Unbound
Publisher: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company
Date Published: 1891
Description: VG. 8vo. 8pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 5 drawings, salvaged from a damaged issue of The Cosmopolitan, Volume XII, No. 2, December, 1891. The author's first-hand account of his trip down the Mississippi river on the steamer, The City of Baton Rouge, of the St. Louis and New Orleans Anchor line, from Twin Hollows, Illinois, to Kaskaskia, then to St. Mary's, Chester, and Cairo, Missouri. Illustrations include a levee at New Orleans, whiskey barrels, tying up for the ... read more
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