For Now

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, signed in black ink on the colophon page by Eggleston. Hardcover. Fine terra cotta colored cloth, with title stamped in black on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket and slipcase. Photographs by William Eggleston, selected by Michael Almereyda (the director of the 2005 film "William Eggleston in the Real World.") Texts by Michael Almereyda, Lloyd Fonvielle, Greil Marcus and Amy Taubin. Interview with Eggleston by Kristine McKenna. Includes a list of plates. Designed by Michael Almereyda and Jack Woody. 144 pp., with 87 four-color plates finely printed on heavy matt paper. 13-3/4 x 12-1/4 inches. Published to coincide with a major retrospective exhibition, "William Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video, 1961-2008," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and traveling to other venues. From the "For Now is the result of filmmaker Michael Almereyda's year-long rummage through the Eggleston archives, a remarkable collection of heretofore unseen images spanning four decades of work by one of our seminal artists. Unusual in its concentration on family and friends, the book highlights an air of offhand intimacy, typical of Eggleston and typically surprising."