2022 Steidl edition ofChromes by William Eggleston

Large format set of 3 hardback volumes

Presented in a slipcase and a card box

AboutChromes

This is the long-awaited reprint ofWilliam EgglestonsChromes, the first in the ongoing series of boxed sets published by Steidl examining the entirety of Egglestons seminal uvre. Egglestons 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.Chromesis an edit of more than 5,000 Kodachromes and Ektachromes taken from ten chronologically ordered binders found in a safe at the Eggleston Artistic Trust. This archive had once been used by John Szarkowski who selected the 48 images printed in Egglestons seminal bookWilliam Egglestons Guide, while the rest of the archive has remained almost entirely unpublished. This book presents Egglestons early Memphis imagery, his testing of color and compositional strategies, and the development towards the poetic snapshot. In short,Chromesshows a master in the making.