Los Alamos revisited

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The negatives for the Los Alamos Project were created between 1965 and 1974 and archived in two boxes, Box #17 and Box #83. In the nineties, these boxes were moved from Memphis to New York, where William Eggleston, Walter Hopps, Caldecot Chubb, and Winston Eggleston edited the photographs into five portfolio boxes of dye transfer prints, with an edition of five and three sets of artist proofs. Thirteen additional images, not included in the portfolios, were printed as individual dye-transfer prints known as the “cousins” of the project. Walter Hopps initially envisioned an exhibition, but it never materialized, leading him to return Box #17 to Memphis while Box #83 was forgotten. After Hopps’ death, his widow discovered Box #83 in his office, which was then returned to the Eggleston Artistic Trust. The negatives in Box #83 had been organized by Hopps and documented in a handmade book titled Lost and Found Los Alamos. In late 2011, William Eggleston III and Marc Holborn reviewed the complete set of negatives for a final edit, culminating in 2012 with the three-volume set titled Los Alamos Revisited. The sequence was composed by Thomas Weski, who previously edited the Scalo book Los Alamos. This new edition includes the long-lost negatives from Box #83, completing the collection. William Eggleston, born in 1939 in Memphis, continues to live and work there.