WILLIAM EGGLESTON
After the exhaustive Whitney exhibition catalog, which reproduced a vast array of Eggleston images from his lengthy career but not that many previously unseen, the film-maker Michael Almereyda was encouraged to go through the Eggleston archives and curate a collection of heretofore unpublished work.
Three years of looking and looking again brings William Eggleston For Now, a treasure box of photographs new to the reader, extending our understanding Eggleston's work with a concentration on how he has seen his family and friends.
The book is as handsome and relaxed as his sleeping wife on the cover, a fresh view and a charming and personal one, reflective of Almereyda's deep familiarity with and sympathy for Eggleston's way of seeing.
Accompanying the images are several essays and interviews collected from obscure sources and brought into the light: among them Greil Marcus's meditation on a single picture of two women, Lloyd Fonvielle's recollection of meeting Eggleston in 1971, and a witty Almereyda essay originally intended to accompany his beautiful documentary In The Real World.
