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Eggleston Road Trips
Eggleston Road Trips
March 15, 2017
William Eggleston, En Route to New Orleans, 1971–1974, from the series ‘Los Alamos’, 1965–1974 © Eggleston Artistic Trust 2004 / Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
Foam Amsterdam displays 75 photographs by William Eggleston that were taken on various road trips through the southern states of America between 1966 and 1974. 17 March though 7 June, 2017.
The US-American photographer William Eggleston (1939, Memphis Tennessee, US) is widely considered one of the leading photographers of the past decades. He has been a pioneer of colour photography from the mid-1960s onwards, and transformed everyday America into a photogenic subject. In the exhibition ‘William Eggleston – Los Alamos’, Foam displays 75 photographs that were taken on various road trips through the southern states of America between 1966 and 1974. The exhibition includes a number of iconic images, amongst which Eggleston’s first colour photograph.
Los Alamos starts in Eggleston’s home town of Memphis and the Mississippi Delta and continues to follow his wanderings through New Orleans, Las Vegas and south California, ending at Santa Monica Pier. During a road trip with writer and curator William Hopps, Eggleston also passed through Los Alamos, the place in New Mexico where the nuclear bomb was developed in secret and to which the series owes its name.
The over 2200 images made for Los Alamos were originally intended to be published in parts, but were forgotten over the years. The photographs were rediscovered almost 40 years after the project started.
Please find more information at FOAM
The US-American photographer William Eggleston (1939, Memphis Tennessee, US) is widely considered one of the leading photographers of the past decades. He has been a pioneer of colour photography from the mid-1960s onwards, and transformed everyday America into a photogenic subject. In the exhibition ‘William Eggleston – Los Alamos’, Foam displays 75 photographs that were taken on various road trips through the southern states of America between 1966 and 1974. The exhibition includes a number of iconic images, amongst which Eggleston’s first colour photograph.
Los Alamos starts in Eggleston’s home town of Memphis and the Mississippi Delta and continues to follow his wanderings through New Orleans, Las Vegas and south California, ending at Santa Monica Pier. During a road trip with writer and curator William Hopps, Eggleston also passed through Los Alamos, the place in New Mexico where the nuclear bomb was developed in secret and to which the series owes its name.
The over 2200 images made for Los Alamos were originally intended to be published in parts, but were forgotten over the years. The photographs were rediscovered almost 40 years after the project started.
Please find more information at FOAM
William Eggleston, En Route to New Orleans, 1971–1974, from the series ‘Los Alamos’, 1965–1974 © Eggleston Artistic Trust 2004 / Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
William Eggleston, Memphis, 1971–1974, from the series ‘Los Alamos’, 1965–1974
© Eggleston Artistic Trust 2004 / Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London
William Eggleston, Memphis, 1965–1968, from the series ‘Los Alamos’, 1965–1974
© Eggleston Artistic Trust 2004 / Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London