[A photograph in black and white. A person sits alongside a bed with their head laid down on the mattress to look at a nude baby that lays on its stomach. Behind the baby, a cat lays on the bed.]
Elliott Erwitt
New York , 1953
Artwork Type: Photographs
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 14 5/8 x 21 3/4 in. (37.15 x 55.25 cm)
Accession #: 19870998J
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation, gift of Marvin and Carol Brown
Related Exhibitions:
American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
Copyright: © Elliott Erwitt
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928 Paris, American)
spent his formative years in Europe before
moving to the United States, where he
would meet his mentors: the prominent
photographers Edward Steichen, Robert
Capa, and Roy Stryker. His extensive
travels contributed to a distinguished
style that captured life’s absurdities with
humane candor and shaped the golden
period of editorial photography and
magazines such as Collier’s, Holiday,
Look, and LIFE. Outside his commercial
career, Erwitt created personal black-
and-white work that reflects his love
of family life and, in particular, children
and pets.
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
–American Playlist: Selections From The University At Albany Art Collections
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