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Title: William Eggleston's Guide by William Eggleston, John Szarkowski ISBN: 0-87070-378-1 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent re-release.
Comment: For those of you who already know Eggleston, there is something in particular to note about this book. I also purchased Eggleston's "The Hasselblad Award 1998," which features a handful of the same shots in Guide. This provided me an opportunity to compare the same shots in two different publications. There is absolutely no comparison to the superior quality of the prints in William Eggleston's Guide. In fact, shots that I loved in Guide I would not have even really noticed in Hasselblad (very poor color separation, blue tints, etc.). This is the book to get.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bill's artful snapshots.
Comment: William Eggleston's photos grow on you. Look through this book for the first time and the contents seem a bit like ordinary snapshots but look again and then again and with each viewing the images become more familiar (still with something fresh to discover each time) but now they start to blend together seamlessly. One reason for this, I think, is that the photos capture the everyday and the ordinary. Taken around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis and in the Deep South, they show some of his relations, street scenes, interiors, buildings and more, though the captions only state the locations. John Szarkowski says in the books introduction "..today's most radical and suggestive color photography derives much of its vigor from commonplace models" This capturing of the everyday and in color divided the critics in 1976 when the Museum of Modern Art used seventy-five of Egglestons's images for their first exhibition of color photography. The 'Guide' unfortunately only shows forty-eight from the show.
Art photography until this exhibition was in black and white and had been for years, color photos were mostly for ads, commercial print and snapshots. Thankfully the Museum's curator of photography, Szarkowski, had the good sense to allow the public to see something new and fresh. I think the 'Guide' is a good introduction to Eggleston and if you like his creative vision, as I do, have a look at these two books of his work, 'The Democratic Forest' and 'Ancient and Modern'. Both are full of wonderful color photos of the American everyday.
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Title: Los Alamos: Los Alamos by William Eggleston, Walter Hopes, Thomas Weski ISBN: 3908247691 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: The Americans by Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac ISBN: 3931141802 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Winogrand: Figments from the Real World by Garry Winogrand, John Szarkowski ISBN: 0870706357 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: William Eggleston 2 1/4 by William Eggleston ISBN: 0944092705 Publisher: Twin Palms Pub Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998 by William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Ute Eskildsen, Hasselblad Center, Gunilla Knappe ISBN: 3908247985 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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