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The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between
1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and
lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to
come. The work offers a journey through the mythic and evolving
American South, seen through the artist's lens: vibrant colors and
a profound sense of nostalgia echo throughout Eggleston's
breathtaking oeuvre. His motifs of signage, cars, and roadside
scenes create an iconography of American vistas that inspired a
generation of photographers. With its in-depth selection of
unforgettable images - a wood-paneled station wagon, doors flung
open, parked in an expansive rural setting; the artist's
grandmother in the moody interior of their family's Sumner,
Mississippi home - The Outlands is emblematic of Eggleston's
dynamic, experimental practice. The breadth of work reenergizes his
iconic landscapes and forms a new perspective of the American South
in transition. Accompanying the ninety brilliant Kodachrome images
and details, a literary, fictional text by the critically acclaimed
author Rachel Kushner imagines a story of hitchhikers trekking
through the Deep South. New scholarship by Robert Slifkin reframes
the art-historical significance of Eggleston's oeuvre, proposing
affinities with work by Marcel Duchamp, Dan Graham, Jasper Johns,
and Robert Smithson. A foreword by William Eggleston III offers
important insights into the process of selecting and sequencing
this series of images.
In April 1979, a book of fifteen colour photographs by William
Eggleston was published in a limited edition of twenty. The
photographs were taken from the second chapter of an unpublished
larger work entitled Wedgewood Blue. Amidst his publications
Chromes (2011), Los Alamos Revisited (2012), and the upcoming
Democratic Forest (2014) and Election Eve (2016), all documenting
his lifetime work, At Zenith constitutes a calm and experimental
intermezzo from Eggleston's familiar loudness and intensity of
colours. The photographer pointed his camera at the sky to focus on
the clouds rolling by.
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