For photographers, the city of Paris must constitute a genre of its own, so perennially photogenic are its streets, skylines, storefronts and people. Here, William Eggleston--"The Father of Color Photography"--offers a brilliant, unusual take on Paris today, with depictions that completely revitalize our sense of this most picturesque of cities. Eggleston spent three years working throughout different seasons, to craft images that reveal surprising and rarely-seen facets of the city, as one might expect from the lens of a photographer most associated with the American South. Eggleston constructs with color--the brilliant yellow of a shop front, the intense blue of a street sign, the carnival colors on a merry-go-round--and of course with little gems of detail--plastic flowers in a shop window, a plastic bag or a woman's supersaturated red shoes--locating effects that are simultaneously rustic and cosmopolitan, glamorous and gritty, everyday and extraordinary.

Product Description: Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. In 1966 he changed from black and white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessors...read more

Product Description: Born and raised in Mississippi and Tennessee, William Eggleston began taking pictures during the 1960s after seeing Henri Cartier-Bresson's The Decisive Moment. In 1966 he changed from black and white to color film, perhaps to make the medium more his own and less that of his esteemed predecessors...read more

Product Description: Book by William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Ute Eskildsen, Lars Hall

Product Description: Photographs by William Eggleston, with an interview. 62 pages; 27 full-page color plates; 8.5 x 10 inches. Part of the Photographers at Work series, edited by Constance Sullivan.

A photographic essay on the American South, Africa, and England depicts subjects and objects from everyday life--the inside of an oven, a tricycle, and landscapes. 10,000 first printing.

Argues that ancient civilization did not discriminate against Black people and suggests reasons for the development of prejudice in the modern world