A tribute to William Eggleston’s brief experiment with pocket-sized, square-format photographs, 2¼ gathers intimate color images taken between 1966 and 1971. These snapshots capture the vibrance and quiet precision that led MoMA curator John Szarkowski to call Eggleston “the first color photographer.”

This clothbound edition features 45 four-color plates with text by novelist Bruce Wagner, expanding the canon of Eggleston’s early color work. Born in 1939, Eggleston helped popularize color photography as a fine-art medium, and his work now resides in major museum collections including MoMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney.