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    [ 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. ]
New York
New York

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
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Object Label:
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.
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