| William Eggleston's Guide |  | Author: John Szarkowski
Creator: William Eggleston
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Category: Book
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Format: Facsimile
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Facsimile edition
Pages: 112
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 9.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0870703781
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780870703782
ASIN: 0870703781
Publication Date: October 15, 2002
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William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum'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't some average American'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. 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. Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston's hometown of Memphis--an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat's eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal-fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone's torso; a tiny, gray-haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint-green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table. For this edition of William Eggleston'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's intentions.
[These] pictures are like no one else's. At once ordinary and spectacular, they look like someone's not particularly interesting snapshots until their matter-of-fact beauty and gorgeousness kick in. --Vince Aletti
As pictures, these seem to me perfect. . .collectively a paradigm of a private view. . .described here with clarity, fullness and elegance. --John Szarkowski Essay by John Szarkowski. Hardcover, 9 x 9 in., 112 pages, 48 color and 1 b&w Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS June 21, 2010
Kent M. Whitney (San Diego, CA)
This is a very nice book and holds very close to the 1st addition. Picture and print reproduction quality is much better than the 1st with a few additional frames adding to the original. Overall, I am pleased with this purchase and can say that I will keep an eye out for more great deals with Amazon the world leader in book selections.
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Great May 5, 2010
leim (Santiago, Chile)
This is the second edition of this book, published many years ago by the MOMA.
This book is great, excellent, with a extremely well done print process, the Eggelston's pictures appears really good show.
I'm very happy with this buy and i'm planning to buy the other books in this format.
A beautiful Book. November 27, 2009
John J. Falkenstine
Arriving early in 1972 for a Job in Statesboro, Georgia, from Europe as "an immigrant with a passport" these images strike me as well done observations. Many times in the early morning I had mental snapshots of the beautiful lighting and the high humidity that often appeared to act as a "soft filter" and I see that effect in these images as well. So, in addition to being excellent photographs, they are also a time machine from "when things were slower and fewer."
But I also sense that Eggleston is one of the few that still enjoyed a somewhat Patrician upbringing from an era gone by, (The Spoiled Squires of the South) and his images are those of an observer and not a participant. I like the quality of theses images that don't have the linear and often harsh quality of digital photography, but the constant and repeated mantras in reviews of this book that Eggleston was a pioneer in color photography are bogus. Others were shooting in color as well, its the exclusionary gallery culture at work here creating their own tall tales.
The front introductory section written by John Szarkowski is for me an entirely separate part of the book and makes for good reading, altough I find the constant name dropping and tortured language that rambles on more of an attempt by John Z to show off his knowledge of photography and how he defines Eggleston's work, and that we readers are mere minions. Enough said, those are my viewpoints. Buy the book and check it out for yourself.
THE Classic August 16, 2009
W. Rosen (USA)
This is it, The Guide, the one book to... well, at least for fans of color photography this new edition of Eggleston's Guide is like a gift to those who were not around to but it when it originally came out and for those who could not afford a 1st edition copy. This is actually better in that the negatives were re-scanned using today's technology and printed better and according to Eggleston's desires. A must-have.
A true icon of american art. November 21, 2008
Scott Hurst (Los Angeles, CA)
The introduction to this book by John Szarkowski is the best essay that I've ever read about photography period. It perfectly matches the photos themselves which I also believe to be perfect. They may not mean much to you at first but keep on looking. They are mysterious and baffling. The book to me is perfect and a true ICON of american art. Everything else pales in comparison, even other Eggleston books.
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