ELLIOTT ERWITT (* 1928)
New York, 1953

Estimate: € 4.000-5.000

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s

16,2 x 25,4 cm

Photographer’s agency stamp and several handwritten notations in ink and pencil on the reverse

LITERATURE Elliott Erwitt, Snaps, London 2011, p. 67; William Manchester (ed.), In our Time. The world as seen by Magnum photographers, London 1989, p. 228-29; Elliott Erwitt, Personal Best, New York/Kempen 2006, p. 422. ‘These pictures were taken in 1953 and, as you can see, there is only one picture worth printing. They are all snapshots, including the one that’s worth printing. It’s a family picture: my first child, my first wife and my first cat.’ Elliott Erwitt Since the picture was included in the "Family of Man" exhibition and catalogue in 1955, this often-reproduced image has become a classic representative of the transformative first days of a newborn’s arrival in a family. It exemplifies Elliott Erwitt’s ability to frame his emotional personal experience and turn it into something universal.

Start price: €2.400