Mark your calendars-September

[venchka]

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad...log_index.html

The Austin Center for Photography, in Austin, Texas, has announced that Elliott Erwitt will be its third "Icons of Photography" speaker on or around this coming September 24th or 25th (check the Center's website closer to the event for exact date and time).

If you live within driving distance of Austin, put it on your calendar.

Mike

Roadtrip!

Wayne

[johnastovall]

See you there....

[venchka]

Hope so.

[DavidsStudio]

I must have been living in a cave for the last 60 years but I have never heard of this icon of photography. Did I miss something he did?

David

p.s. this is not a criticism of the poster or the photographer. I just though I had at least heard of most of the icons of the medium

[venchka]

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger. I hadn't heard of him either until very recently.

[jeffkohn]

Originally Posted by DavidsStudio

I must have been living in a cave for the last 60 years but I have never heard of this icon of photography. Did I miss something he did?

David

p.s. this is not a criticism of the poster or the photographer. I just though I had at least heard of most of the icons of the medium

He's a street/documentary photographer. I'd heard the name but never seen any of his work, until he was recently featured in one of the magazines I suscribe to (I think it was B&W, but can't recall for sure). From the work featured in the article he seems to specialize in somewhat humorous images, using irony, juxtaposition, etc. Maybe there's more to his overall body of work than that, but that was the impression I got. Most street photography bores me to tears, but I enjoyed looking at the images featured in the article.

[venchka]

Originally Posted by jeffkohn

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Most street photography bores me to tears, but I enjoyed looking at the images featured in the article.

Hypothetical:

If a photographer is standing on a street and sees a scene he wishes to photograph and has to leave the street and cross a field and two sets of railroad tracks, is that still street photography? I'm not saying I wasn't making boring photos, just curious.

I also realized that I saw something else to photograph on that walkabout and bypassed it on my back to the car. I hate when that happens.

[johnastovall]

Elliott Erwitt is far more than a 'street photographer.'

A short bio from Magnum which he was invited to join in 1953.

"Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.

Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.

While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.

In 1953 Erwitt joined Magnum Photos and worked as a freelance photographer for Collier's, Look, Life, Holiday and other luminaries in that golden period for illustrated magazines. To this day he is for hire and continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.

In the late 1960s Erwitt served as Magnum's president for three years. He then turned to film: in the 1970s he produced several noted documentaries and in the 1980s eighteen comedy films for Home Box Office. Erwitt became known for benevolent irony, and for a humanistic sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum."

See more....

[ipo]

thanks for the heads up

[pcdeatherage]

although I truly liked a small percentage of them, just watching the slide show http://www.elliotterwitt.com/lang/index.html reminded me to take the pictures I like and quit worrying about what everyone else is going to think...

[studiocygnet]

I'm a member of ACP, but I've been out of town for a while. How was the lecture, for those that went.