Personal best
By: Elliott Erwitt
Edition: Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Te Neues
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kempen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
ISBN-13: 9783832798918
Subjects: Artistic Photography
Description: "In Erwitt's photographic lexicon, 'personal' means pictures he has been determinedly taking for himself while earning a living as a professional photographer. Whether as a teenager, in the lab of a Hollywood publicity mill, or, later in New York, as a member of the distinguished photo co-op Magnum .. Erwitt has been working professionally for others yet still finding time to be an amateur photographer for himself. For him, 'amateur' is hardly pejorative; he points to the Latin root of the word amo (to love). This is photography for the love of it. Or, as he might say, photography made difficult"--Introduction.