William eggleston photographer biography book

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William Eggleston – The Outlands

Selected Works

A urval of nearly one hundred previously unseen images from the s and s by the pionjär of color photography, William Eggleston.

»The Outlands«, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between and , establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to komma. The work offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist’s lens: vibrant colors and a profound sense of nostalgia echo throughout Eggleston’s breathtaking oeuvre. His motifs of signage, cars, and roadside scenes create an iconography of American vistas that inspired a generation of photographers. With its in-depth selection of unforgettable images—a wood-paneled station wagon, doors flung open, parked in an expansive rural setting; the artist’s grandmother in the moody interior of their family’s Sumner, Mississippi ho

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William Eggleston

American photographer

William Eggleston (born July 27, )^[1] is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition of color photography as a legitimate artistic medium. Eggleston's books include William Eggleston's Guide () and The Democratic Forest ().

Eggleston received a Guggenheim Fellowship in ,^[2] the Hasselblad Award in ,^[3] and Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in ^[4]

Early life and education

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William Eggleston was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Sumner, Mississippi. His father was an engineer and his mother was the daughter of a prominent local judge. As a boy, Eggleston was introverted; he enjoyed playing the piano, drawing, and working with electronics. From an early age, he was also drawn to visual media and reportedly enjoyed buying postcards and cutting out pictures from magazines.

At the age of 15, Eggleston was sent to the Webb School,

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Condition: Wie neu. Twin Palm Publishers, Santa Fee. First edition, sixth printing. Mint, new, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher`s plastic foil. Eggleston is famous for "Guide" (Andrew Roth, Book of Books, page / Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page ). Orange printed cloth with color photograph affixed to front panel. x mm. 50 photos. Text: Bruce Wagner. Language: english. Perfect condition! Collector`s copy! "Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson`s The Decisive Moment. In he changed from black-and-white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessor. John Sarkowski, when he was curator of photography at the Museum of Modern Art, called Eggleston the "first color photographer" and the world in which we consider a color photograph as art has changed because of him."***************Twin Palm Publ