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Elliott Erwitt (1928 – 2023)
Merry-go-round, Paris, France, 1951
Item number 057-03627
Ice-cream stalls, merry-go-round and funfair magic were highlights of urban children's life in the post-war period, while the adults could not always enjoy them.
The print was made in 2012 on the occasion of Elliott 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. 36,5 x 54,5 cm (36,5 x 54,5 inch)
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Object dimensions 51 x 61 cm (51 x 61 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Black wooden Chanel frame 61,2 x 79 cm
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Condition
Exhibition print for Chanel Nexus Hall in Tokio -
Annotations
Signed by the photographer in ink in the lower margin right -
Literature
Elliott Erwitt's Paris, Kempen: teNeues 2010, p. 90f. -
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