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From page 19
ly developed them in his hotel
room to avoid having the nega-
lives destroyed by X-ray machines
at the airport): Jackie Kennedy,
and of course, his uproarious dog
photos — have earned Erwitt in-
ternational status.

But while the modest
photographer is delighted his work
has been well received, he char-
acteristically downplays its impor-
tance.

“4 don't want to analyze it,” he
says, “If other people want to,
that’s fine, that means they‘il talk
about it, There’s not that much to
analyze, 1 don't think. It's not very
profound, It’s not poetry. It’s not
literature. It’s just what you see.
it’s an easy contact.”’

Photography, Enwitt has long
maintained, is ‘‘a lazy man’s pro-
fession.”

Unlike doctors or musicians who
must train to practice their profes-
sion, photographers “only need
the modest ability to achieve order
and composition, or find the right
balance of mood.

“You just need to read the in-
structions on the box,”’ he says,
between bites of a crab sandwich.
“What you do need is te be
curious, to be interested in
things...to develop a point of view.
attitude.” And in the case of Er-
witt, have a patient and keen eye
for humour.

He admits he’s had to wait days
for some of his humoraus shots.
“You don’t need to stage things
to make people giggie,”” he says.

Making people faugh has always
been one of Erwitt’s highest goals.

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photo Elliott Erwitt. copyright Elliott ErwittiMagnum.
ELLIOTT ERWITT’S subjects range from Jackie Kennedy graveside to
humorous dog photos.

“t's certainly very pleasant if you
can make somebody faugh...if

you've done it legitimately, that is,

swithout tickling them.’

When asked if he considers us-
ing a bicycle horn to be legitimate
“(To avoid a sour or stiff face Er-
witt’s favorite trick is to blow a
bicycle horn at his subjects, in-
cluding Krushchev) he replies,
“Well, that’s not too legitimate,”
and chuckles to himself. Nor, one
would imagine, is barking at dogs,
which Erwitt, who is wearing an
eye-catching tie imprinted with
red dachshunds, contesses to do-
ing ‘‘when he has something to
say.”

Currently, Erwitt is working on

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