it is silly stuff
that has some relevance with
nothing happening
Erwitt downplayed his role as a photographer, often shrugging off pretension or chalking it up to happenstance: “It is silly stuff that I think has some relevance with nothing really important happening, but somehow being able to communicate some kind of fun,” he once said. There’s a lightness of touch that characterises even his most serious images, and he was a master of ironic juxtapositions and comic charm.
From the obit for photographer Elliott Erwitt, Nixon, Monroe and cheeky male buttocks: the soul-affirming photography of Elliott Erwitt, by Charlotte Jansen.
Erwitt worked into his 90s, and was ever practical about his art. “Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures,” he told the Guardian in 2020
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