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Elliott Erwitt's New York At Edwynn Houk Gallery
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 11, 2009
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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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Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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