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William Eggleston shot these photographs in and around Plains, Georgia - and along the route of his journey there from Mississippi - on the eve of the 1976 Presidential election.
Visiting Jimmy Carter's home town during his bid for the presidency may have seemed an obvious pilgrimage for the southern photographer, but the photographs he brought back from the trip were characteristically unexpected:
'The photographs have a quietude and unsentimental romanticism, as well as an edge of poignancy, which belie the expectations of hopefulness or portentiousness suggested by a knowledge of the time and place in which they were made. On the eve of the election, when nothing had been decided, when everything - whatever that everything was - hung in the balance, Eggleston made an elegy...a statement of perfect calm...He wanted to show Plains in the true context of its life as a southern town: as a tiny waystation on roads leading to other, more vital places...as the hub of a very small, agricultural wheel...These photographs show us a place strikingly different from one whose image was so carefully edited and construed for us by the media. And of course Eggleston has also given us a portrait of Plains as it will never be again. Plains is now a juncture of history, an attraction, a symbol...
Perhaps one should make no other claims for these pictures, athough one could. The straightforward, subtle brilliance of Eggleston's eye, his sensitivity to effects of light and color, is often astonishing...
The images are printed tickets for a journey Eggleston took in October 1976 - a journey whose progression was interior emotional and intellectual, and whose precise itinerary is recorded in these pages.' (Lloyd Fonvielle, Election Eve, Preface).
This two-volume set is one of an edition of only five copies. The body of work has never before been offered at auction.
Visiting Jimmy Carter's home town during his bid for the presidency may have seemed an obvious pilgrimage for the southern photographer, but the photographs he brought back from the trip were characteristically unexpected:
'The photographs have a quietude and unsentimental romanticism, as well as an edge of poignancy, which belie the expectations of hopefulness or portentiousness suggested by a knowledge of the time and place in which they were made. On the eve of the election, when nothing had been decided, when everything - whatever that everything was - hung in the balance, Eggleston made an elegy...a statement of perfect calm...He wanted to show Plains in the true context of its life as a southern town: as a tiny waystation on roads leading to other, more vital places...as the hub of a very small, agricultural wheel...These photographs show us a place strikingly different from one whose image was so carefully edited and construed for us by the media. And of course Eggleston has also given us a portrait of Plains as it will never be again. Plains is now a juncture of history, an attraction, a symbol...
Perhaps one should make no other claims for these pictures, athough one could. The straightforward, subtle brilliance of Eggleston's eye, his sensitivity to effects of light and color, is often astonishing...
The images are printed tickets for a journey Eggleston took in October 1976 - a journey whose progression was interior emotional and intellectual, and whose precise itinerary is recorded in these pages.' (Lloyd Fonvielle, Election Eve, Preface).
This two-volume set is one of an edition of only five copies. The body of work has never before been offered at auction.