EGGLESTON, William - The Democratic Forest

Background information

"Following the William-EGGLESTON-publications 'Chromes' (2011, reissued in 2022) and 'Los Alamos Revisited' (2012), the publisher continued with the publication of 'The Democratic Forest', his most ambitious project. This ten-volume set containing more than 1,000 photographs is drawn from a body of 12,000 pictures made by William EGGLESTON in the 1980s.

Content

Following an opening volume of work in Louisiana, the ensuing volumes cover EGGLESTON's travels from his familiar ground in Memphis and Tennessee out to Dallas, Pittsburgh, Miami and Boston, the pastures of Kentucky and as far as the Berlin Wall. The final volume leads the viewer back to the South of small towns, cotton fields, the Civil War battlefield of Shiloh and the home of Andrew Jackson in Tennessee. The term 'democratic' in William EGGLESTON's title refers to a democracy of vision, through which the most mundane subjects are represented with the same complexity and significance as the most elevated. This work has rarely been shown and only a fraction of the entire oeuvre has ever been published; the exhaustive editing process has taken over three years. This gorgeous set includes a new introduction by Mark Holborn and the republication of Eudora Welty's original essay on the work." (© D.A.P.)

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

Photo books by and on the work of William EGGLESTON