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William Eggleston's Guide

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William Eggleston's Guide is a groundbreaking collection of color photographs that transformed the art world's perception of color photography, showcasing Eggleston's masterful use of color as a central element of photographic composition.

Beschreibung

Autor*in: John Szarkowski

Seitenanzahl: 112 Seiten

Masse: Breite 23cm, Höhe 23cm

Verlag: Thames und Hudson / The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 21.10.2002

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN-Nummer: 978-0-87070-378-2

Klappentext

A facsimile edition.

Zusammenfassung

William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of colour photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum's first publication of colour photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with colour photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren't some average person's Instamatic pictures from the family album. These photographs heralded a new mastery of the use of colour as an integral element of photographic composition. Bound in a textured cover inset with a photograph of a tricycle and stamped with yearbook-style gold lettering, the Guide contained 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971 and displayed a deceptively casual, actually superrefined look at the surrounding world. Here are people, landscapes and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's home town of Memphis - an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal-fired barbecue shooting up in flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle; the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, grey-haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint-green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table. For this edition of William Eggleston's Guide, The Museum of Modern Art has made new colour separations from the original 35mm slides, producing a facsimile edition in which the colour will be freshly responsive to the photographer's intentions.

Zum Autor

John Szarkowski was an influential U.S. photography art historian, art critic, curator and photographer. He was the longtime director of the Department of Photography, the photographic division of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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