William Eggleston: At Zenith

In April 1979, a book of 15 color 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 The photographs were taken from the second chapter of an unpublished larger work entitled Wedgewood Blue. Alongside his publications Chromes (2011), Los Alamos Revisited (2012) and the forthcoming Democratic Forest (2014) and Election Eve (2016), all documenting Eggleston’s life work, At Zenith constitutes a calm and experimental intermezzo from Eggleston’s familiar loudness and intensity of colors. The photographer pointed his camera at the sky to focus on the clouds rolling by.