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Title: William Eggleston: The Hasselblad Award 1998 by William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Ute Eskildsen, Hasselblad Center, Gunilla Knappe ISBN: 3-908247-98-5 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: August, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Enigmatic photographs
Comment: Once while I was in Memphis, I actually passed William Eggleston's house, a sort of two-story Italian Villa house, and actually considered ringing the front door just to meet the guy. Eggleston's photos are of Delta cotton towns, piney woods and red clay dirt roads and blue sky, and they remind me of the time I was growing up in Arkansas, in the 70s and 80s, when Reagan was president and the natives were restless. There's even a photograph of a Krystal's Restaurant on Poplar Avenue where I used to stop to eat mini cheeseburgers. Overall, the photos are a perfect introduction to Eggleston's work. Some may argue them banal and devoid of people and presences, focusing rather on minutia, and things disregarded or thrown aside. I mean, Eggleston's the kind of guy who gets absorbed by throw-aways, like fancy ketchup packs or chewed paper cups on the side of the road in a ditch, and he'll zoom his camera on them to capture the moment. For this guy, no matter how banal, there's still "something" there....Alex Sydorenko, Chicago, January 11, 2001.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Intro to Eggleston's Work
Comment: William Eggleston's subjects are the blind spots of conventional photographers: puddles, people caught in careless moments neither heroic nor pathetic, nondescript interiors, toys which are neither inviting nor menacing. His photos are rare glimpses into the banal, the forgotten, the liminal: the spaces, moments and people we pass everyday without ever noticing. While many photographers highlight the exotic, the beautiful, the newsworthy or even the grotesque, Eggleston chose to represent and contemplate the 95% of life hidden beneath the surface of "photo-worthiness". He notices what happens in the "in-between" moments- a women's hair lit up by the sun as she stands at a snack stand, someone getting out of a car which has its brake lights still on. He accomplishes something very difficult. Rather than exoticize or beautify the banal, he tries to represent the banal as plainly as possible. This gives his images an amazing luminance, depth and sincerity hard to find in the starved one dimensionality and "obviousness" of most photographs. Most photos are easy. The photographer's intention and message is clearly read and the viewer is instantly gratified. Eggleston makes you work harder. Give this book to your National Geographic loving friends.
Rating: 4
Summary: A handsome addition to your Eggleston collection
Comment: The editor (Gunilla Knape) has done a fine job of representing some of Eggleston's best work, while also including photos that I believe are previously unpublished. Nice index of thumbnail images at the end.
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Title: William Eggleston's Guide by William Eggleston, John Szarkowski ISBN: 0870703781 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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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: 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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