Elliot Erwitt - California, USA, 1955

Elliot Erwitt. California, USA, 1955.

In this image, Erwitt captures a couple sharing an intimate moment in their car in California in 1956.

'Copyright Elliot Erwitt / Magnum Photos' on the back of the image.
Total dimensions: 35,3 x 27,4 cm on semi-gloss paper.
Fine condition (with small imperfections).

Elliot Erwitt was a constant seeker of the decisive moment, but with a certain amount of irony. It is rather irony and criticism that underlie the background of the photograph. An irony that goes a step further with his well-known series "Dogs", almost always seen from the ground, in which people and dogs intermingle each other's lives, raising curious visual concepts.

One of the most influential photographers of the 20th century along with other photographers of his time such as: Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Philippe Halsman, Diane Arbus, Eve Arnold, Robert Doisneau, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, among many others.