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THE OUTLANDS - WILLIAM EGGLESTON LEINEN

The publication of William Eggleston's Chromes by Steidl in 2011 marked the beginning of the
examination of the entire prolific output of this extraordinary artist in a range of books
including Los Alamos Revisited (2012) and the ten-volume The Democratic Forest (2015). The
three volumes of The Outlands are drawn from the same source  the photographs Eggleston made on
color transparency film from 1969 to 1974 that formed the basis for the Chromes volumes and for
John Szarkowski's seminal exhibition of Eggleston's work at the Museum of Modern Art in New
York in 1976 with the accompanying book William Eggleston's Guide. However  with the exception
of a couple of alternate versions  none of the photographs in The Outlands has been published
previously. The result is revelatory. Starting at almost the exact point on the same street in
suburban Memphis where Eggleston famously photographed the tricycle  the work follows a route
through the back roads to old Mississippi where he was raised. What is disclosed is a sublime
use of pure color hovering in semi-detachment from the forms he records. At the time  Eggleston
was photographing a world that was already vanishing. Today  this final installment of his
color work offers a view of a great American artist discovering the range of his visual
language and an unforgettable document of the Deep South in transition.

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