Good pick, @theartnewspaper.official !! â â â â JOSĂ DA SILVA writes: "With the one of the most polarizing US presidential election campaigns coming to an end in just under a fortnight, the serene images taken in the run-up to another presidential election 44 years ago seem like they come from a different planet. The 100 photographs collected in William Egglestonâs first book, called 'Election Eve' (1977), were taken in October 1976 mostly around the small town of Plains in Sumter County, Georgia, but also during the journey there from the photographerâs home in Memphis, Tennessee. Plains was the hometown of the then Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, who would go on to beat the incumbent Republican Gerald Ford to become the 39th President of the United StatesâŠâ â â â A facsimile of the book was published as a single volume in 2017 by the German publisher @steidlverlag and now a second edition has been released in time for the run-up to another presidential election. The book contains a 2017 afterword by [original publisher'] Caldecott Chubb and the original introduction by the writer Lloyd Fonvielle, who wrote of the images: âThe photographs have quietude and unsentimental romanticism, as well as an edge of poignance, which belie the expectations of hopefulness or portentousness suggested by a knowledge of the time and place in which they were made. On the eve of the election, when nothing had yet been decided, when everythingâwhatever that everything wasâhung in the balance, Eggleston made an elegy⊠a statement of perfect calm.ââ â â â Read the complete review via linkinbio.â â â â #williameggleston #electioneve @egglestonartfoundation @inventaire #eggleston #election #jimmycarterâ â â â https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqJkCUJsSG/?igshid=12nn2zoepy51n