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Sale 2694 - Lot 192

Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ELLIOTT ERWITT (1928-2023)
A Portfolio of Ten Photographs. 1946-68; printed 1974.
Featuring the photographer's iconic pictures. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 9½x13½ inches (24.1x34.3 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Erwitt's signature in ink on mount recto, and the Witkin-Berley portfolio label with the print and portfolio numbers in ink on mount verso. Folio-sized photo-pictorial and graphically printed brown folder and slipcase featuring his iconic Chihuahua; the colophon with Erwitt's signature and edition number 17; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 25. New York: Witkin-Berley Ltd., 1946-68; printed 1974.

"The ten photographs in this portfolio are a cross section of my "personal pictures." They represent the more thoughtful onehundredtwentyfifths of a second (on the average) of my photographic life.
These pictures were mostly snapped "on my way to the studio; that is, they were not done with special purpose or with preconception. In my particular case, that is the way I respond to the subjects that make up my ultimate photographic inventory. Luckily, visual humor and pathos, as I perceive them, are ever present and quickly recognizable. (I believe that they probably exist even in a meeting of the Supreme Soviet.) So my task, as I see it, is to formalize that recognition by recording it with minimum manipulation, hopefully with some style and insight; and by respecting and taking the subject matter very seriously, while at the same time not taking it seriously at all.
...but most of all, I believe that a reasonable picture is worth more than 163 words." --Elliott Erwitt, July, 1974

New York, 1946 * Orleans, France, 1952 * Nicaragua, 1954 * Las Vegas, 1957 * Brasilia, 1961 (2 different images) * Venice, 1965 * Bratsk, Siberia, 1967 * Florida, 1968 * Miami Beach, 1968
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