William Eggleston - Guide, Buku Foto Photobook

Essay by John Szarkowski In 1976, William Eggleston #39;s Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum #39;s first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color 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 #39;t some average American #39;s Instamatic pictures from the family album. These photographs heralded a new mastery of the use of color as an integral element of photographic composition. For this second edition of William Eggleston #39;s Guide, The Museum of Modern Art has made new color separations from the original 35 mm slides, producing a facsimile edition in which the color will be freshly responsive to the photographer #39;s intentions. 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 super-refined look at the surrounding world. 112 pp.; 48 illus.