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Elliott Erwitt (1928 – 2023)
Paris, France, 1990
Item number 057-03679
An elderly woman petting a leished dog while passing by. A man in his working clothes leaning casually at the step of an entrance looking towards the camera. A masterful street scene of a certain quality.
The print was made in 2012 on the occasion of Erwitt's personale »Paris Sera Toujours Paris« at the Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo. The show, whose title quotes a chanson by Maurice Chevalier, drew an essence of Erwitt's best shots from the Seine metropolis.
It was here that he had been born to Russian-Jewish parents. At the age of 11, Erwitt had to immigrate to the USA, where he began taking photographs and became a full member of Magnum in 1953. Among the distinguished representatives of humanistic photojournalism, he stands out especially for his humour.
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Gelatin silver print, print date: 2012
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Image dimensions ca. 44 x 29,5 cm (44 x 29,5 inch)
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Object dimensions 51 x 40,5 cm (51 x 40,5 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Black wooden Chanel frame 68,5 x 54,5 cm
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Condition
Exhibition print for Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokyo -
Annotations
Signed by the photographer in ink in the lower margin right -
Literature
Elliott Erwitt's Paris, Kempen: teNeues 2010, p. 109. -
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