William Eggleston's Guide
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 pictu…
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- Full title :William Eggleston's Guide / [photographs, William Eggleston] ; essay by John Szarkowski.
Summary
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.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:[2014], ©2002.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:[2014], ©2002.
Notes
Reprint (2014) of 1976 catalogue of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Physical Object
- Description:110 pages : : chiefly color illustrations ; : 24 x 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:3775712569, 9783775712569, 0870703781, 9780870703782
- oclc:ocn953733677
- LC Classification:TR654
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