Election eve
By: William Eggleston
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783958292666
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Pictorial works
Description: "Election Eve contains images made in October 1976 during Eggleston’s pilgrimage from Memphis to the small town of Plains, Georgia, the home of Jimmy Carter who in November 1976 was elected 39th President of the United States. Eggleston began photographing even before he left Memphis and depicted the surrounding countryside and villages of Sumter Country, before he reached Plains. His photos of lonesome roads, train tracks, cars, gas stations and houses are mostly empty of people and form an intuitive, unsettling portrait of Plains, starkly different to the idealized image of it subsequently promoted by the media." -- provided by publisher
Notes: Originally published as two volumes in a linen box in an edition of 5: New York: Caldecot Chubb, 1977.

"This new edition ... recreates the full original sequence of the photographs in a single volume"--Colophon.