-On the eve of the election, when nothing had yet been decided, when everything--whatever that everything was--hung in the balance, Eggleston made an elegy ... a statement of perfect calm.- --Lloyd Fonvielle
In 1977 William Eggleston released Election Eve, his first and most elaborate artist's book, containing 100 original prints in two leatherbound volumes, housed in a linen box. It was published by Caldecot Chubb in New York in an edition of only five, and has since become Eggleston's rarest collectible book. This new Steidl edition recreates the full original sequence of...