From Black & White to Color

William Eggleston
9783869307930 / 3869307935       
From Black & White to Color

From Black & White to Color

William Eggleston
9783869307930 / 3869307935       
Publisher Steidl 2014
Edition Hardcover , 200 pages
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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, Eggleston declared at the time: “I couldn’t imagine doing anything more than making a perfect fake Cartier-Bresson.” Eventually 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. From Black and White to Color includes some exceptional as-yet-unpublished photographs, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of Eggleston’s work when he began photographing in color at the end of the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 Eggleston’s unconventional croppings-all definitive traits of the photographer who famously proclaimed, “I am at war with the obvious.”

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Book title From Black & White to Color
Photographer William Eggleston
ISBN 10 3869307935        / 3-86930-793-5       
ISBN 13 9783869307930 / 978-3-86930-793-0
Publisher Steidl
Publish date Oct 2014
Publish year 2014
Book format Hardcover
Language English
Pages 200 pages
Dimensions 16,7 x 22,6 cm / 7 x 9.5 inches

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