Background information
"At the end of the 1950s William EGGLESTON began to photograph around his home in Memphis using black-and-white 35mm film. Fascinated by the photography of Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, William EGGLESTON declared at the time:' 'I couldn’t imagine doing anything more than making a perfect fake Henri Cartier-Bresson.' Eventually William EGGLESTON developed his own style which later shaped his seminal work in color - an original vision of the American everyday with its icons of banality: supermarkets, diners, service stations, automobiles and ghostly figures lost in space.
Content
The photo volume 'From Black and White to Color' includes some exceptional as yet unpublished photographs, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of William EGGLESTON’s work when he began photographing in color at the end of the 1960s. Here we discover similar obsessions and recurrent themes as present in his early black-and-white work, including ceilings, food, and scenes of waiting, as well as William EGGLESTON unconventional croppings - all definitive traits of the photographer who famously proclaimed, 'I am at war with the obvious'.” (© Steidl Verlag, 2014)
Additional information
This photo volume, 'From Black and White to Color' by William EGGLESTON, is out of print from the publisher and is therefore only available from Cafe Lehmitz Photobooks as part of the 'William EGGLESTON Photo Book Library', which however grows and grows and grows with each new William EGGLESTON volume....
About the American photographer, William EGGLESTON (b. 1939)
Photo books by and on the work of William EGGLESTON
- Format
- HC, 17,5 x 23 x 2 cm., 200 pp., text language: English