EGGLESTON, William - Election Eve

Background information

"In 1977 William EGGLESTON released 'Election Eve', his first and most elaborate artist's book, containing 100 original prints in two leather-bound volumes housed in linen box. It was published by Caldecot Chubb in New York in an edition of only five, and has since become William EGGLESTON’s rarest collectible book.
This new edition of 'Election Eve' recreates the full original sequence of photos in a single volume, making it available to the wider public for the first time.

Content

'Election Eve' by William EGGLESTON contains images made in October 1976 during his pilgrimage from Memphis to the small town of Plains, Georgia, the home of Jimmy Carter who in November 1976 was elected 39th President of the United States. He began photographing even before he left Memphis and depicted the surrounding countryside and villages of Sumter Country, before he reached Plains. His photographs of lonesome roads, train tracks, cars, gas stations and houses are mostly empty of people and form an intuitive, unsettling portrait of Plains, starkly different to the idealized image of it subsequently promoted by the media." (© Steidl Verlag 2017)

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

Photo boks by and on the work of William EGGLESTON