"LOS ALAMOS" par William EGGLESTON. Editions Scalo, Zurich, en collaboration avec Museum Ludwig, Köln. 2003. Imprimé en Allemagne. Edition Originale. Grand in-4 carré, couverture toilée crème sous jaquette photo. 176 pages. Texte bilingue Anglais et Allemand de Walter Hopps et de Thomas Weski, illustré de 82 reproductions photographiques couleurs, pleine page, par William Eggleston.

 

"While driving through New Mexico in 1973, William Eggleston stopped at Los Alamos, the forested site of the atomic bomb's clandestine development. He chose Los Alamos as the title for a sprawling body of work then nearing completion: approximately twenty-two hundred images photographed between 1966 and 1974. This title cloaks with some irony Eggleston's ostensible subjects, found in a vast American terrain, yet acknowledges his belief in the aesthetic consequences of his private quest. The photographs that make up this selection from Los Alamos begin at the beginning, with the first color photograph Eggleston made, o a grocery clerk pushing a shopping cart; include the center of his world – Memphis and the Mississippi Delta; trace his travels west from New Orleans to Las Vegas and southern California; and end on the Santa Monica Pier…" Walter Hopps.

 

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