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Raised in Paris and Milan by Russian émigré parents, Elliot Erwitt did not become interested in photography until his family settled in Hollywood, California during his teenage years, and he started working in a commercial darkroom developing celebrity portraiture. After being drafted into the Army in 1950, he made a splash with a photo-essay on barracks life, and later traveled the world shooting for Magnum.
Erwitt's stunning photos are acclaimed for what The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik called a "light touch that runs naturally into dry melancholic poetry." He's also done a lot of advertising photography, directed documentaries for HBO, and took that famous photo of Nixon prodding Khrushchev in the lapel in Moscow.
The Edwynn Houk Gallery (745 Fifth Avenue) is currently exhibiting 25 gelatin silver prints from Erwitt. The show, which coincides with the publication of Elliott Erwitt’s New York, spans his entire career, including many unseen works from the 1950s and '60s. And here's a great profile on Erwitt the Guardian did in 2003.
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links from gothamist should open in a new window - or else its harder to come back to gothamist. otherwise this is a good post.
Yes I agree, but my cynic half tells me that the current linking system generates more page views than if a separate window or tab opened.
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Unfortunately, most photographers today will never match photographers like him.
agreed. I blame flickr and then idea that a good photo is now just a poorly composed, overly saturated and intensely bright hi def mess.
A lot of photographers from his own era couldn't match Erwitt's skill.
I contend that, percentage-wise, the ratio between great and hack photogs remain the same since the mass production of roll film and consumer cameras. There are lots of street photogs still producing excellent work using film and digital tech.
I just want to point out that I'm not detracting from anyone, but due to the time of the era, you're just not going to get the same kind of impact with today's photographers that you did with guys like Erwitt.
I'll have to disagree with your ratio, there's a significantly larger noise-to-signal [sic] these days -- just look at flickr, smugmug, etc. There's a whole lot of unabashed shit that's trying to get passed off as "art".
I've met dudes running around with Nikon D3's, D700's, Canon 1Ds Mk2's, 5D's, etc. who can't take a photograph to save their life.
colour breaches castle walls,nyc
we live in our castles
slick sided granite buildings
tower over masses of scuttling
barbarians below
enduring profusions of earthy smells
fighting for provenance like plants
struggling to survive in
crowded jungle narrow canyons created
by our sky-hugging forts
which lean toward one another
whispering of our private
ugly secrets while we watch
from glassed-in ramparts and balconies
in unending block after block
of grey primitive existence
startled by row upon row
of bursting crimson tulips
waving bloody swordpoints
in springtime defiance
adorning the traffic median
along Park Avenue flowers
thriving in the bruises
of a city’s shadows
I'm there -- thanks.
Anybody know what that bowling/billiards place in the top photo is now?
probably a Shoemania
Every one is a stunner but the ghostly Empire State Building shot takes the cake.
Its ALL ABOUT THE FRAME my Brothers & Sisterz. I'm tired of snot nose people running around thinking they Artists. Dam the digital camera. Whats important is whats inside the box & how you frame it. Its funny how Photoshop makes people instaProfessionals. I live for these Old Timerz!
Too Many photo sites anyway