Elliott Erwitt
Subtitle: home around the world
By: Jessica S. McDonald, Stuart Alexander, Sean Corcoran, Steven Hoelscher ; edited by Jessica S. McDonald
Contributors: McDonald, Jessica S., 1974- author, editor; Alexander, Stuart, author; Corcoran, Sean, 1974- author; Hoelscher, Steven D., author; Harry Ransom Center
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aperture; Harry Ransom Center
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781597113694
Subjects: Photograph collections; Harry Ransom Center; Artistic Photography; Exhibitions
Other titles: Home around the world
Work titles: Photographs
Description: Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World offers a timely and critical reconsideration of Erwitt's unparalleled life as a photographer. Produced alongside a major retrospective exhibition, the book features examples of Erwitt's early experiments in California, his intimate family portraits in New York, his major magazine assignments and long-term documentary interests, and his ongoing personal investigations of public spaces and their transitory inhabitants. Essays by photography experts based on extensive new interviews with the photographer consider less-studied aspects of Erwitt's work: his engagement with social and political issues through photojournalism, the humanist qualities of his very early photographs, and his work as a filmmaker. Home Around the World traces the development and refinement of Erwitt's unique visual approach over time. With over two hundred photographs, and ephemera including magazine reproductions, advertisements, and contact sheets, this volume is the first to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of Erwitt's body of work and position in the field.
Notes: Published on the occasion of an exhibition of works from the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, held there, August 15, 2016-January 1, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311).
Table of contents: title: Preface / Jessica S. McDonald; title: Elliott Erwitt: home around the world / Jessica S. McDonald; title: Early Erwitt / Stuart Alexander; title: Cold wars and hot assignments: Elliott Erwitt's photojournalism / Steven Hoelscher; title: Rangerettes, pleasure hunts, and good nudes: Elliott Erwitt and the motion picture / Sean Corcoran; title: Checklist of the Exhibition.