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PUBLISHER
Steidl/C/O Berlin

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 142 color / 23 bw.

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Pub Date
Forthcoming

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D.A.P. Exclusive
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ISBN 9783969992203 TRADE
List Price: $50.00 CDN $72.50

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William Eggleston: Mystery of the Ordinary

Edited with text by Felix Hoffmann. Text by Joerg Sasse, Thomas Weski.

A handsome overview of Eggleston’s evolution and legacy, from the early black-and-white work to his pioneering adventures in color

Although the first universal color slide film came onto the market in 1935, it was reserved for the world of advertising, and as late as the 1980s it was still considered commercial, vulgar and unartistic. Despite this, from the 1960s onward, more and more photographers began to discover the creative possibilities of the medium. William Eggleston, whose career has spanned over five decades, not only substantially contributed to this paradigm shift; he also noticeably influenced many subsequent generations. Along with Saul Leiter, Evelyn Hofer and Stephen Shore, Eggleston was one of the first photographers to recognize the distinctive power of color and its unique capacity to create pictures that continuously challenge the everyday. He imbued banality with the uncanny and mysterious, investigating his immediate surroundings again and again—as if he were somehow suspicious of the contents of his freezer, the ketchup bottle on the diner counter, not to mention the guns that appear as if by chance in so many of his pictures. Mystery of the Ordinary captures the full scope of Eggleston’s evolution and legacy: from the early black-and-white work of the late 1950s, in which we witness his discovery and exploration of themes and unconventional croppings, to some of his most iconic color images.
Born in Memphis in 1939, William Eggleston obtained his first camera in 1957. His exhibition Photographs by William Eggleston 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 published by Steidl include Chromes (2011), Los Alamos Revisited (2012), The Democratic Forest (2015), Election Eve (2017), Morals of Vision (2019), Flowers (2019), Polaroid SX-70 (2019) and The Outlands (2021).


William Eggleston: Mystery of the Ordinary

STATUS: Forthcoming | 8/8/2023

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William Eggleston: Mystery of the Ordinary

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: MYSTERY OF THE ORDINARY

STEIDL/C/O BERLIN

ISBN: 9783969992203
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Pub Date: 8/8/2023
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William Eggleston: Chromes

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: CHROMES

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783969990889
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Pub Date: 10/11/2022
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William Eggleston: The Outlands

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: THE OUTLANDS

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958292659
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Pub Date: 9/28/2021
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William Eggleston: The Outlands

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: THE OUTLANDS

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958292659
USD $450.00
| CAN $630

Pub Date: 9/28/2021
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William Eggleston: Musik (Vinyl)

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: MUSIK (VINYL)

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958292765
USD $85.00
| CAN $112.5

Pub Date: 2/6/2024
Forthcoming


William Eggleston: Polaroid SX-70

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: POLAROID SX-70

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958295032
USD $80.00
| CAN $115

Pub Date: 3/24/2020
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William Eggleston: Flowers

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: FLOWERS

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958293892
USD $80.00
| CAN $115

Pub Date: 3/24/2020
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William Eggleston: Morals of Vision

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: MORALS OF VISION

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958293908
USD $80.00
| CAN $115

Pub Date: 3/10/2020
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William Eggleston: Election Eve

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: ELECTION EVE

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783958292666
USD $98.00
| CAN $135

Pub Date: 12/26/2017
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William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: THE DEMOCRATIC FOREST

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783869307923
USD $680.00
| CAN $965

Pub Date: 11/24/2015
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William Eggleston: At Zenith

WILLIAM EGGLESTON: AT ZENITH

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783869307107
USD $65.00
| CAN $87

Pub Date: 3/15/2014
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William Eggleston's Guide

WILLIAM EGGLESTON'S GUIDE

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK

ISBN: 9780870703782
USD $45.00
| CAN $60

Pub Date: 10/2/2002
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