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Text engl. - „Leonard Freed ranks among the giants of twentieth-century photojournalism. His work as a member of Magnum regularly graced the front pages of major newspapers around the world, as well as the covers of many international magazines. Worldview, the most ambitious collection of Freed's work ever produced, spans his full 50-year career, from coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict back through the American Civil Rights movement to post-war German reconstruction. Among other highlights, it includes a key selection of images from his New York City Police Department project that became the landmark book, Police Work. There, as throughout his career, Freed's vision was sharp, insightful and critical, but always deeply sympathetic to his fellow human beings--he was a pioneer in what has aptly been called "concerned photography." He died in 2006.“ (http://www.amazon.com/Worldview-William-Ewing/dp/3865214630)

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Text lithuanian, engl. - Ed. by Gintaras Česonis in cooperation with William A. Ewing, Jean-Marc Lacabe and Margarita Matulyté. Printed by Kopa, Kaunas

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Text engl. - Other editions: First edition 1976. - William Eggleston's Guide was the first one-man show of color photographs ever presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Museum s first publication of color photography. The reception was divided and passionate. The book and show unabashedly forced the art world to deal with color photography, a medium scarcely taken seriously at the time, and with the vernacular content of a body of photographs that could have been but definitely weren t some average American s Instamatic pictures from the family album. These photographs heralded a new mastery of the use of color as an integral element of photographic composition. Bound in a textured cover inset with a photograph of a tricycle and stamped with yearbook-style gold lettering, the Guide contained 48 images edited down from 375 shot between 1969 and 1971 and displayed a deceptively casual, actually super-refined look at the surrounding world. Here are people, landscapes, and odd little moments in and around Eggleston s hometown of Memphis--an anonymous woman in a loudly patterned dress and cat s eye glasses sitting, left leg slightly raised, on an equally loud outdoor sofa; a coal-fired barbecue shooting up flames, framed by a shiny silver tricycle, the curves of a gleaming black car fender, and someone s torso; a tiny, gray-haired lady in a faded, flowered housecoat, standing expectant, and dwarfed in the huge dark doorway of a mint-green room whose only visible furniture is a shaded lamp on an end table. For this edition of William Eggleston s Guide, The Museum of Modern Art has made new color separations from the original 35 mm slides, producing a facsimile edition in which the color will be freshly responsive tothe photographer s intentions.

Includes a biography, bibliography and list of images.

Text engl. - Published on the occasion of the 1976 exhibition William Eggleston, curated by John Szarkowski, at MOMA, New York. One of the most outstanding, brilliantly edited and influential books in the history of photography. The very best book of Eggleston's groundbreaking color work from the 1960s and 1970s. The first edition is scarce. Accompanied by a brief biography, on the last page. (Borelli, 2005).

Text engl. - Enthält 14 eingeklebte Original Photographien (davon 10 von S. Thompson und 4 von P. Ewing). Vgl. Gernsheim, “Incunabula...”, 424.