EGGLESTON, William - Chromes

Background information

"The standing of William EGGLESTON as one of the masters of color photography is widely acknowledged. But the gradual steps by which he transformed from an unknown into a leading artist are less well known. Steidl has undertaken to trace these steps in an ambitious series of publications. 'Before Color' (2010) explored William EGGLESTON’s revelatory early black and white images, while 'Chromes' is an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from ten chronologically ordered binders found in a safe in the EGGLESTON Artistc Trust.  This archive had once been used by John Szarkowski who selected the forty-eight images printed in William EGGLESTON’s seminal book 'William Eggleston’s Guide', while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished.

Content

This photo book set, 'Chromes', presents the early Memphis imagery by William EGGLESTON, his testing of colour and compositional strategies, and the development towards the ‘poetic snapshot’. In short, 'Chromes 'shows a master in the making." (© Steidl Verlag, 2011)

Additional information

Out of print 1st print run has been republished in 2022; 1st print run is ONLY TO GET AS PART OF THE 'William-EGGLESTON-Library'.

About US-American photographer, William EGGLESTON (b.1939)

Photo books by as well as with works by William EGGLESTON