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69 »These pictures were taken in 1953
ELLIOTT ERWITT (* 1928) and, as you can see, there is only one
New York, 1953 picture worth printing. They are all
Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s snapshots, including the one that’s
16,2 × 25,4 cm (6.4 × 10 in)
Photographer’s agency stamp and several hand- worth printing. It’s a family picture:
written notations in ink and pencil on the reverse
my first child, my first wife and my
LITERATURE
Elliott Erwitt, Snaps, London 2011, p. 67; William first cat.«
Manchester (ed.), In our Time. The world as
seen by Magnum photographers, London 1989,
p. 228–29; Elliott Erwitt, Personal Best, New York / Elliott Erwitt
Kempen 2006, p. 422.
* € 2.400 / € 4.000–5.000
Since the picture was included in the »Family
of Man« exhibition and catalogue in 1955, this
often-reproduced image has become a classic
representative of the transformative first days of a
newborn’s arrival in a family. It exemplifies Elliott
Erwitt’s ability to frame his emotional personal
experience and turn it into something universal.
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