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PHOTOGRAPHER
ELLIOTT ERWiTT
MAKES US
LAUGH AND CRY

1960 -— Year of disasters. Lu-
cienne divorces Elliott Enwitt, caus-
ing an extremely painful separa-
tion from their four children.

1981 — Receives traffic summons
for speeding.

1984 — (Second) Wife runs off.
Familiar disaster strikes again with
the exception that new family
house does not burn down.

1987 — Ponders a fot on the
meaning of life.

1988 — Decides to hang in there
for lack of a better alternative.

HE MOST telling

details of an artist’s life

can often be found in
one or two simple entries of
a biography.

In the case of American
photographer Elliott Erwitt, the
humor and anguish revealed in
these telling lines is indicative of
his artistic viewpoint — that life is
a complex combination of comedy
and tragedy.

EVELYN
JACOB

spotlight feature

in his now famous black and
white photograph of a distraught
Jackie Kennedy, taken in 1963 at
Arlington Cemetery, a sparkling
detail of a single tear caught in the
fine black mesh of the widow's
veil captures the poignancy of that
gloomy day.

Another compelling photo, a
young boy peering through a
spider crack in the window of a
car, the crack covering one eye, is
moving, tragic, and profound (Er-
witt, however, insists that his work
is ‘not very profound’”’).

Erwitt, 61, has also managed to
capture life’s most biting ironies;
many of his candid shots are full of
humor. A dog clutching a human
skull ticks its chops; two women
with beehives dressed in spotted
leopard-skin coats are caught
strolling along a matching cob-
blestone road. The images are as
simple and as clever as a witty
pun.

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ELLIOTT ERWITT’S personal snapshots are on display at Presentation
House until July 29. A member of Magnum Photo Agency, Erwitt ex-
poses the quirky incongruities and subtle comedy in our familiar

world.

About 200 of Erwitt’s black and
white “snaps’’ of 40 years of
work are currently on display at
Presentation House Gallery.

Called Personal Exposures, the
exhibit is made up of Erwitt’s
favorites, culled from some 2,500
photographs.

A soft-spoken man with a mass
of curly greying hair and
penetrating eyes, Erwitt was born
in France on July 20, 1928, subse-
quently makiag his home in Italy,
Paris, California and New York. In
1953 he joined Robert Capa’s
Magnum Photo Agency, which
was to become an renowned
organization of illustrious
photographers.

A number of unforgettable im-
ages — behind-the-scenes glimp-
ses of political history — Nixon
jabbing Krushchev in the chest
with a stubby finger during the
so-called Kitchen Debate of 1959;
Soviet missiles (Masquerading as a
member of a Soviet T.V. crew,
Erwitt took the pictures and secret-

See Erwitt
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