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The Private Experience: Elliott Erwitt
Masters of Contemporary Photography. This issue is dedicated entirely to the photographer Elliott Erwitt. Text by Sean Callahan. English.
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96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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September 8, 2008
Lots of interesting biographical information on Erwitt. Plenty of great and amusing tales, too.
Some of the reproductions seem pretty bad. There is also this terrifically annoying faux-how-to-guide influence pervading the book; it includes an entire, crappy appendix on how to use YOUR CAMERA to BE AS GOOD AS ELLIOT!! Screw you, Alskog, I don't put on airs; Elliot Erwitt is a master, I'm not.
And this snotty gearheadism escapes the appendix in places: the second photograph in the book includes this (superimposed) caption: "Erwitt's telephoto lens foreshortened perspective to produce strong design in this advertisement for Holland." Wow, you don't say. Don't get in the way of the material.
Some of the reproductions seem pretty bad. There is also this terrifically annoying faux-how-to-guide influence pervading the book; it includes an entire, crappy appendix on how to use YOUR CAMERA to BE AS GOOD AS ELLIOT!! Screw you, Alskog, I don't put on airs; Elliot Erwitt is a master, I'm not.
And this snotty gearheadism escapes the appendix in places: the second photograph in the book includes this (superimposed) caption: "Erwitt's telephoto lens foreshortened perspective to produce strong design in this advertisement for Holland." Wow, you don't say. Don't get in the way of the material.
April 24, 2012
My first contact with Elliot Erwitt through wich I've discovered the kind of pictures that I would like to photograph.
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