Hi, I just remembered the following. During Erwitt's slide show he made witty remarks about a number of the photos. When he arrived at the one of the boy holding a (toy) revolver to his head and grinning, EE said it was one of his all-time favourites, because while on one level it's amusing, on another it's terribly sad and says various things about the human condition. It communicates on several levels, and this is something that I like in a photo too.
Researcher Mike J. will give you the page reference. <g> --- Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday, November 01, 2001, 8:40:56 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > Last week I went to a talk and slide show given by Elliott Erwitt. > Somebody asked him who were the main influences on his photography. > "All the usual suspects" was his reply. > The same reply applies to this question. There are too many to be able > to single out one photograph. For me it's almost anything by Erwitt, > Hank, Irving Penn (esp. from "Worlds in a Small Room"), Jones > Griffiths, the rest of the Magnum photographers, Salgado, Kazuyoshi > Nomachi, Raymond Depardon... > Impossible to choose. > --- > Bob > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "It's all a crap shoot" --Elliott Erwitt - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
