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William Eggleston, Los Alamos Revisited, Volume III
Volume 1 Volume 2
Volume 3 Slipcase
William Eggleston
Los Alamos Revisited
Between 1965 and 1974 William Eggleston and Walter Hopps traveled together in the US, Eggleston taking photographs,
Hopps driving. During these travels the title Los Alamos was born. At the turn of the century Eggleston, Hopps,
Caldecot Chubb and Winston Eggleston edited the photographs into a set of five portfolio boxes containing dye-
transfer prints, which were produced in an edition of five with three sets of artist proofs. In addition to this selection, a
further thirteen images were printed and released as individually available dye-transfer prints, which were referred to as
“cousins” of the Los Alamos project. Hopps’ original vision was to make a vast exhibition of the project, but plans fell
through and the idea was abandoned. At some point the negatives became separated, Hopps retaining roughly half of
the project in Houston. Later Hopps carefully returned what was assumed to be the remainder of the negatives to
Memphis and they were catalogued as Box #17. After Hopps’ death in 2005 his widow Caroline found another box of
negatives that had never been accounted for. These were then catalogued as Box #83 and documented in a hand-made
reference book called Lost and Found Los Alamos.
In 2011, William Eggleston III (son of William) and Mark Holborn came together to review the now complete set of
negatives for a final edit and sequence. They finished their sequence in Göttingen with Winston Eggleston in 2012. It
is presented in its entirety in this three-volume set. An earlier edition of Los Alamos edited by Thomas Weski was
published by Scalo in 2003. Weski’s original essay is included in this revised edition. Los Alamos Revisited has been
drawn from the complete set of photographs, including the long lost negatives from Box #83.
William Eggleston was born in 1939 in Memphis, where he still lives and works. Steidl has published Eggleston’s Paris
(2009), Before Color (2010) and Chromes (2011).
William Eggleston
Los Alamos Revisited
Text by Thomas Weski and Walter Hopps
Book design by Gerhard Steidl, Duncan Whyte
and Karsten Lücke
Vol. 1: 192 pages / Vol. 2: 168 pages /
Vol. 3: 228 pages
12.4 x 12.6 in. / 31.5 x 32 cm
280 photographs
Four colour process
Three clothbound hardcover books with tipped-in
photos, housed in a foil-embossed slipcase
€ 248.00 / £ 220.00 / US$ 345.00
ISBN 978-3-86930-532-5
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