{"product_id":"william-eggleston-chromes-9783969990889","title":"William Eggleston: Chromes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eChromes\u003c\/i\u003e effortlessly traces the themes and subject matter which became Eggleston's signature.... Ultimately, it points to the way his eye saw images in a broader scale, which led to his unrivalled knack at creating a balanced composition out of seemingly random unconnected objects.\" -\u003ci\u003eWallpaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Eggleston's standing as one of the masters of color photography is widely acknowledged. But the gradual steps by which he transformed from an unknown into a leading artist are less well known. Steidl has undertaken to trace these steps in an ambitious series of publications. \u003ci\u003eBefore Color\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) explored Eggleston's revelatory early black-and-white images, while \u003ci\u003eChromes\u003c\/i\u003e is an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from 10 chronologically ordered binders found in a safe in the Eggleston Artistc Trust. This archive had once been used by John Szarkowski, who selected the 48 images printed in Eggleston's seminal book \u003ci\u003eWilliam Eggleston's Guide\u003c\/i\u003e, while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished. Featuring a newly designed slipcase, this three-volume publication presents Eggleston's early Memphis imagery, his testing of color and compositional strategies, and the development toward the \"poetic snapshot.\" In short, \u003ci\u003eChromes\u003c\/i\u003e shows a master in the making.\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Memphis in 1939, \u003cb\u003eWilliam Eggleston\u003c\/b\u003e obtained his first camera in 1957 and was later profoundly influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson's \u003ci\u003eThe Decisive Moment\u003c\/i\u003e. His exhibition \u003ci\u003ePhotographs by William Eggleston\u003c\/i\u003e at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1976 was a milestone; in 2008 a retrospective of his work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and at Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2009. Eggleston's books include \u003ci\u003eLos Alamos Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eThe Democratic Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eElection Eve\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eMorals of Vision\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003eFlowers\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), \u003ci\u003ePolaroid SX-70\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and \u003ci\u003eThe Outlands\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50521321537810,"sku":"9783969990889","price":359.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0d43200b-f962-4a78-ba85-bbdf6ce6ca41.jpg?v=1731101722","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/william-eggleston-chromes-9783969990889","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}