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Personal statement by photographer Juergen TELLER about the project 'William Eggleston 414'
"We drove around for days. Miles and miles of dead barren cotton wool land, depressing countryside and abandoned towns. I asked Bill, ‘Where are we going? Where the fuck are you taking us?’ He replied laughing, ‘I wanted to show you nothing.’” (© Juergen TELLER)
Backgroundinformation
„The photo volume ‚William Eggleston 414‘ by Harmony Korine & Juergen TELLER is avisual memoir of a road trip they took ten years ago with William EGGLESTON and his son, Winston, from Memphis to Mississippi.
Content
Featuring
photos and short introductions by Harmony Korine and Juergen TELLER,
this record of their spontaneous, intimate journey captures their love
for each other through the shared experience of the American road, and
combines images of gas stations, abandoned trucks, evangelical
households, banal landscapes and hotel rooms with candid portraits.
Certain
photos cleverly re-visit William EGGLESTON’s own famous motifs—strings
of colored electric lights, road signs, people in cars—and yet the star
of the show is without doubt William EGGLESTON himself, always
impeccably groomed, whether seated at the kitchen table, holding the
hand of cousin Maude Schuyler Clay, or playing the grand piano.“
(publisher’s note, © Steidl Verlag, 2020)
About German photographer Juergen TELLER (b.1964, in Erlangen)
Photo books by Juergen TELLER
About US-photographer William EGGLESTON (b.1939, in Memphis)
Photo books by and on the work of William EGGLESTON