中文简介：

本书汇集了是William Eggleston在1969年至1974年期间拍摄的一系列照片，确立了开创性的视觉主题和词汇，并在未来几十年内继续发展。通过艺术家的镜头，该作品提供了一个神话般的、不断发展的美国南方的旅程：鲜艳的色彩和深刻的怀旧感在Eggleston令人惊叹的作品中回荡。他的标牌、汽车和路边场景的主题创造了一个美国风景的图标，激发了一代摄影师。凭借其精选的图像——一辆木板旅行车，车门被打开，停在广阔的农村环境中；在位于密西西比州萨姆纳的家中忧郁的祖母，本书是Eggleston动态、实验性实践的象征。作品的广度为他标志性的风景画注入了新的活力，并形成了对转型期美国南方的新视角。

伴随90张精彩的彩色图像和细节，作家Rachel Kushner撰写的文学性虚构文本想象了一个搭便车者在南方深处跋涉的故事。Robert Slifkin的新学术研究重新规划了Eggleston作品的艺术历史意义，提出了与Marcel Duchamp、Dan Graham、Jasper Johns和Robert Smithson作品的关系。William Eggleston III的前言对这一系列图像的选择和排序过程提供了重要的见解。

英文简介：

The Outlands, a series of photographs taken by Eggleston between 1969 and 1974, establishes the groundbreaking visual themes and lexicon that the artist would continue to develop for decades to come. The work offers a journey through the mythic and evolving American South, seen through the artist's lens: vibrant colors and a profound sense of nostalgia echo throughout Eggleston's breathtaking oeuvre. His motifs of signage, cars, and roadside scenes create an iconography of American vistas that inspired a generation of photographers. With its in-depth selection of unforgettable images - a wood-paneled station wagon, doors flung open, parked in an expansive rural setting; the artist's grandmother in the moody interior of their family's Sumner, Mississippi home - The Outlands is emblematic of Eggleston's dynamic, experimental practice. The breadth of work reenergizes his iconic landscapes and forms a new perspective of the American South in transition.

Accompanying the ninety brilliant Kodachrome images and details, a literary, fictional text by the critically acclaimed author Rachel Kushner imagines a story of hitchhikers trekking through the Deep South. New scholarship by Robert Slifkin reframes the art-historical significance of Eggleston's oeuvre, proposing affinities with work by Marcel Duchamp, Dan Graham, Jasper Johns, and Robert Smithson. A foreword by William Eggleston III offers important insights into the process of selecting and sequencing this series of images.