"Reading" Eggleston's Guide

1. This book claims to be a Guide or sorts. What could it be a guide to? How does it function as a guide?

2. Take 10 minutes to look back through Eggleston's Guide and pretend you are watching a movie or slideshow.

What do you notice about the order of the pictures? How do they move between outside and inside? On what page do people first appear in the pictures? How do the colors (and maybe your emotional reactions to them) change as you browse through the pictures? What repeated patterns and colors do you detect? How are the photos composed? What does the photographer seem interested in?

Considering all of these things, what claims can you make about how Eggleston has put this book together, and why it is in the order it is in?

 As a group, share your answers to the individual questions, and then consider the following:

What "truth" do these photos tell? What "reality" do they address?

Finally, if you had to pick 1 of these pictures to stand for all of them, which would you choose? Which 1 picture could you argue is somehow representative of all of them, and why?