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...PEOPLE tell me I'm good at visual puns. I guess that's true," says photographer Elliot Erwitt on the opening page of Personal Exposures, and he undoutedly has an eye for humor. But at the same time, Erwitt is a master in capturing the subtle tragedy in everyday life. His book is a comprehensive overview of his development, published to coincide with the world tour of an exhibition of black and white photographs...
...Elliot Erwitt...
...Russian immigrants to France, Erwitt was born Elio Romano Erwitz in 1928 and moved to Italy at an early age. In 1938, his family was forced to leave the country because of Mussolini's fascist policies. Three years later, Erwitt and his father settled in southern California, where he bought his first camera, an antique glass plate...
...with a decisive tap, as when Lee Friedlander, a deceptively casual imagemaker, positions his eyeline on an ordinary suburban street to get a flowering shrub directly behind a lamppost, so that the street light seems to be emitting great sprays of blossom in broad daylight. In one way, Elliott Erwitt's New Jersey, 1953, is a most plainly observed view by a roadside: sky, bushes, bus stop. But the cannon muzzle poking over the top of the bushes removes it to another tract of the imagination. For a moment the areas "out there" and "in here" fuse in an image...
...havoc Doty has wrought with what is generally accepted photographic history. Of the members of Magnum, the photojournalists' cooperative that nursed most of Life's best talent from 1930 to about 1960. Robert Capa, generally conceded the greatest war photographer ever to live, is missing completely: so are Elliot Erwitt and Constantine Manos, both of whom have had one-man shows at the Museum of Modern Art; Danny Lyon, whose photoessays have been widely acclaimed, has only one picture in the show. But Dennis Stock and Charles Harbutt, by no mean's Magnum's greatest talents, have several pictures apiece...