Elliott Erwitt
dal 12/6/2012 al 29/9/2012
Segnalato da
12/6/2012
Elliott Erwitt
KunstHaus Wien, Wien
Retrospective. In his often humorous photos, he combines irony with insight, lightness with profundity. This comprehensive retrospective presents a highly active and versatile photographer who has also been called the 'Woody Allen of photography'.
The photographer Elliott Erwitt delights in focussing his gift of observation on animals as well as humans – and, especially, on all-too-human situations. In his often humorous photos, he combines irony with insight, lightness with profundity. This comprehensive retrospective presents a highly active and versatile photographer who has also been called the “Woody Allen of photography”.
Elliott Erwitt, the son of Russian immigrants, was born in Paris and grew up in Milan. In 1939 he managed to flee the Nazis via France on the last ship to the USA, and since 1941 he has lived in New York. Throughout decades of work as a highly successful advertising photographer and photojournalist and as the director of documentations and films for television, Erwitt has always also remained an “amateur” – in the sense of its Latin root, meaning “lover” – of photography.
Erwitt, who later became president of the Magnum Photos agency, achieved fame not only for his documentation of the debate between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev in 1959, which brought him his reputation as the “invisible insider”, but also for his benevolently ironic and affectionate portraits of children, dogs and dog owners, nudists and, not least, museum visitors.
Image: FRANCE. Paris. 1989 © Elliott Erwitt/Magnum Photos
Press contact:
BSX Bader GmbH
Astrid Bader and Bernhard Mayer
Wichtelgasse 37/28
1160 Vienna
Tel. +43-1-524 05 42-12
bernhard.mayer@bsx.at
Photographer's Talk with Elliott Erwitt: Thursday, 14 June 2012, 7 p.m. (click here for info)
Exhibition opening with Elliott Erwitt in attendance: Wednesday, 13 June 2012, 7 p.m.
KunstHaus Wien
Untere Weissgerberstrasse, 13 - Wien
Opening Hours
daily, 10 am to 7 pm
Adults: € 9,- Adults with "Vienna-Ticket": € 8,- Concession: € 7,- (for details, see Reductions)