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Chen Chieh-jen, Realm of Reverberations 2015, video still. Courtesy the artist

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William Eggleston: Black and White

Black and White is an updated and expanded edition of William Eggleston’s (born 1939) Before Color (Steidl, 2012), the first publication to comprehensively present Eggleston’s early black-and-white photos and explore his artistic beginnings.

In the late 1950s Eggleston began photographing his hometown of Memphis, discovering many of the motifs that would come to define his seminal work in color: the diners, cars, gas stations, supermarkets, domestic interiors and the seemingly mundane gestures and expressions of his fellow citizens. Also here are his unconventional, sometimes tilted croppings, and above all his emphasis on the beautiful in the banal. In the mid-1960s Eggleston began working with color and after experimenting with different exposure settings he was soon pleased with the results―“And by God it all worked. Just overnight.” He subsequently abandoned black-and-white photography but its influence on his original vision of the American everyday remains fundamental.

William Eggleston Black and White

Hardcover: 280 pages Publisher: Steidl (March 27, 2018) Language: English ISBN-13: 978-3958293243

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Snow Replica ( Note of the Snow Crystal Observation ) - ODN

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The Lost Shoe ⥲ Indices of Disappearance Series. Tanya Rusnak, Juillet, 2020