Laure Maugeais
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- Exposition
Sequentially Yours - Atlas Gallery, London - ELLIOT ERWITT
Elliott Erwitt, featuring his popular photographic comic strips. Erwitt’s photo-sequences are presented as little sketches, almost like stills from a film, depicting episodes and anecdotes of daily life, as they unfold, in front of his camera and inviting the viewer’s imagination to embellish the scenes with personal details. Here, more than ever, we see Erwitt as the ironist, revealing things in the human condition and the commonplace that evoke humour and playfulness.
The black and white prints made up of between two to sometimes as many as twenty separate frames, capture non-events, seemingly insignificant happenings shot in spare moments on or between assignments across the globe. Part of their brilliance lies in the apparent ease of execution. Their snapshot approach and apparent simplicity seem a...
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Elliott Erwitt, featuring his popular photographic comic strips. Erwitt’s photo-sequences are presented as little sketches, almost like stills from a film, depicting episodes and anecdotes of daily life, as they unfold, in front of his camera and inviting the viewer’s imagination to embellish the scenes with personal details. Here, more than ever, we see Erwitt as the ironist, revealing things in the human condition and the commonplace that evoke humour and playfulness.
The black and white prints made up of between two to sometimes as many as twenty separate frames, capture non-events, seemingly insignificant happenings shot in spare moments on or between assignments across the globe. Part of their brilliance lies in the apparent ease of execution. Their snapshot approach and apparent simplicity seem a...