William Eggleston For Now

Memphis native William Eggleston has long been noted as a pioneer in photography - color photography to be exact. This is a big year for the artist with a show currently hanging at LACMA and his new book spanning four decades of work, William Eggleston For Now, by Twin Palms Press recently published. The book is 144 pages with 87 four-color plate, 12 x 14 images. Each and every image is superb.

The best thing about Eggleston's work is how it is all so unassuming and the 'awe' he is able to create from fragments of ordinary and untouched reality. There is also something else that always lies under the pigment that creates a sense of unease. Eggleston's unmanipulated images ask the question: what is next? It's the vulnerability and the unknown he always seems to capture that really resonates with me. I can easily find myself lost for hours.

Image: William Eggleston, Preface to Election Eve, 1977