Research Catalog

Title

Elliott Erwitt : home around the world / Jessica S. McDonald, Stuart Alexander, Sean Corcoran, Steven Hoelscher ; edited by Jessica S. McDonald.

Author

Erwitt, Elliott

Publication

• New York, N.Y. : Aperture ; [Austin, Texas] : Harry Ransom Center, [2016]
• ©2016

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• McDonald, Jessica S., 1974-
• Alexander, Stuart
• Corcoran, Sean, 1974-
• Hoelscher, Steven D.
• Harry Ransom Center, host institution.

Description

311 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 26 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Photographs. Selections

Alternative Title

• Photographs.
• Home around the world

Subjects

• Harry Ransom Center Exhibitions
• Erwitt, Elliott > Exhibitions
• Photograph collections > Texas > Austin > Exhibitions
• Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• 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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311).

Contents

Preface / Jessica S. McDonald -- Elliott Erwitt: home around the world / Jessica S. McDonald -- Early Erwitt / Stuart Alexander -- Cold wars and hot assignments: Elliott Erwitt's photojournalism / Steven Hoelscher -- Rangerettes, pleasure hunts, and good nudes: Elliott Erwitt and the motion picture / Sean Corcoran -- Checklist of the Exhibition.

Call Number

JQF 17-171

ISBN

• 9781597113694
• 1597113697

LCCN

2016905685

OCLC

957546383

Author

Erwitt, Elliott, photographer.

Title

Elliott Erwitt : home around the world / Jessica S. McDonald, Stuart Alexander, Sean Corcoran, Steven Hoelscher ; edited by Jessica S. McDonald.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : Aperture ; [Austin, Texas] : Harry Ransom Center, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311).

Added Author

McDonald, Jessica S., 1974- author, editor.

Alexander, Stuart, author.

Corcoran, Sean, 1974- author.

Hoelscher, Steven D., author.

Harry Ransom Center, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 17-171