William Eggleston: From Black and White to Colour

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William Eggleston: From Black and White to Colour

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 From Black and White to Color includes some exceptional as-yet-unpublished photographs, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of Eggleston's work when he began photographing in color at the end of the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."
Country USA
Brand Steidl
Manufacturer Steidl
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9783869307930
ReleaseDate 2014-10-31
UnitCount 1
Format Unabridged
EANs 9783869307930

Country	USA
Brand	Steidl
Manufacturer	Steidl
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9783869307930
ReleaseDate	2014-10-31
UnitCount	1
Format	Unabridged
EANs	9783869307930

William Eggleston: From Black and White to Colour

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