EGGLESTON WILLIAM William Egglestons Guide

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EGGLESTON, WILLIAM.
William Eggleston's Guide.
Essay by John Szarkowski. Illustrated with reproductions of Eggleston's color photographs. Small 4to, gilt-lettered leatherette with mounted photographic reproduction; interally scattered foxing at the beginning and end. Roth 234; Parr/Badger 265; Hasselblad 308. first edition, signed by john szarkowski to bill osmun.
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1976)

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Also with a short letter from Bill Osmun to Wilma Gottlieb, along with a 1976 New Yorker article titled "Photography, Diana and Nikon" and a New York article titled "MoMA Lowers the Color Bar." The letter says, "Have you seen the enclosed? It seems to find place for Wm. Eggleston in an historical context, at least as far as John Szarkowski conceives it." It goes on to discuss Imogen Cunningham as well as the Western Assocation of Art Museums. Also with an invitation to a University of California exhibition of William Eggleston's work, 1977. Osmun was the senior curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) during its early years.