内容简介

Elliott Erwitt Snaps is a comprehensive survey of Erwitt's work containing more than 500 pictures, many never published before. From famous images like Khrushchev and Nixon arguing in Moscow in 1959 and Marilyn Monroe with the cast of The Misfits, to more personal subjects, Erwitt's distinctively witty style captures the famous and the ordinary, the strange and the mundane over a period of more than half a century.

The book's nine chapters, entitled Look, Move, Play, Read, Rest, Touch, Tell, Point and Stand, act as a means of grouping and organizing - making broad connections while playing a game of pun and ambiguity in keeping with the visual games Erwitt plays with the camera.

'The hallmarks of an Erwitt classic: the ability to spot an absurd juxtaposition and to record it with childlike delight Ö This tome shows that he hasn't lost any of the visual wit that makes one relish his pictures, while, at the same time, recognizing the melancholy that infuses any realization of the arbitrariness of existence.' (Time Out)

'Rare among photographers, Erwitt can make you laugh out loud (just turn to pages 86-87), but his scope is Tolstoyan. This 550-page retrospective will absorb you for years.' (Independent)

'An essential career-spanning retrospective that reveals Erwitt's unassuming wit, brilliant framing and deep humanity.' (New York Post)

作者简介

艾略特·厄威特（Elliott Erwitt ，1928- ）

马格南（Magnum）图片社主要成员，以拍摄富有幽默感的纪实摄影而著称。1928年出生在巴黎的一家美国人开设的医院，1939年跟随俄裔双亲移居美国。1942年起他在洛杉矶大学进修了两年摄影并对此进行了深入的研究。毕业后，他服役于美国陆军通信部队，驻扎在欧洲，并一直担任摄影助理的工作。1950年，厄威特开始为美国标准石油公司工作。1954年，就在马格南纽约办公室迁址后，他正式加入该组织。

艾略特·厄威特作为马格南图片社的成员，拍摄了许多当代的文献记录摄影。比如，他拍摄了尼克松和赫鲁晓夫1959年在莫斯科国际工业展览会上的辩论照片，因而获得了世界级的声誉。他的摄影风格幽默而温馨，黑白作品有力而且不带偏见的揭示了人类最基本的情感世界。他拍摄的题材当中有大家熟知的公众人物、宠物、儿童、风景以及...

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