William Eggleston

5 x 7

HC 27,5x36,5 cm
Twin Palms 2006

William Eggleston's latest monograph features photographs taken during the early 1970s using a large format 5x7 camera. While the book includes imagery typical of the Eggleston oeuvre - streetscapes, parked automobiles, portraits of the strange and disenfranchised - the book also offers never-before-published photographs taken in the nightclubs Eggleston used to frequent.

With it [his camera and portable strobes] Eggleston could shoot in virtual darkness in the juke joints and clubs around Memphis. The portraits are offhand and spontaneous but insistently stark; their brutality is heightened by the absence of color. The portraits have a leveling effect - whether biker or debutante, the people Eggleston photographed are clearly denizens of the same realm. [He] is reminding us: look closely, each of these individuals is subtly different.
-Walter Hopps

Riveting as the sitters' accoutrements are, most compelling is the way in which each person is at once magni?ed - laid bare and vulnerable. . . . Staring, smiling, grimacing, glowering, these are less portraits of "individuals" than of the expressions that settle ?eetingly on their malleable features. Each face feels stranger and more physically ambivalent than the next.
-Johanna Burtxon, Artforum

Andere Titel von William Eggleston:

William Eggleston`s Guide
Horses & Dogs
2 1/4
The Hasselblad Award
The Democratic Forest
it came from memphis
Ancient and Modern
2-13
Faulkner's Mississippi
Eggleston
Elvis at Graceland
2 1/4
William Eggleston`s Guide
Los Alamos
William Eggleston`s Guide
Double Exposure
Spirit of Dunkerque
5 x 7

Ausstellungen von/mit William Eggleston

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10.05. - 14.06.2008: There's no place like home , Photographs Do Not Bend Galler, Dallas, USA
25.02. - 23.03.2008: L'oeil démocratique , Centre de photographie de Lect, Lectoure, F
26.01. - 24.03.2008: MOON AND HALF DOME - Works from the Hasselblad Foundation collection , Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, S
21.11. - 26.01.2008: Portraits 1974 , Photology s.r.l., Milano, I
09.11. - 07.12.2007: Portraits 1974 , Studio Trisorio, Napoli, I