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| Registered: | July 30th, 2007 |
| Num of photos: | 530 |
| Age: | 55 |
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| Photogear: | Canon EOS 7D, Canon EOS 20D, old Canon F-1, EOS-3 and 5. Compacts: Canon G12 and Leica D-Lux 3 |
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Posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on March 26th, 2009 | 24 comments | 948 views
#5 - 27.03.2009
Try to guess the author's name till Wednesday night, the 8th April (Easter Holidays;)), (maybe also the decade it was taken), when I'll reveal his/her name .
You may post your guess since now! Suggestion: if you are convinced you really guessed, please let the master's name initials, instead, as well as for someone well known in his/her pictures) for others to go on trying! Thanks.
I'll post 3 pics from each photographer to show different views from himself, and to make it easier to guess. After his/her name revelation, I'll post at least some more photos just for your extended pleasure, as well as a new Master work for a new turn in the game ;)
You may choose, also, to make some comments on the pics themselves, both in a "woophyan" way as you do in your comments [don't hesitate to criticize a Master, for bad or good;)], or in a more general point of view, if you like. Thanks and enjoy!
#1. Elliott Erwitt_California_1955
#2. Elliott Erwitt_Provence_1955
#3. Elliott Erwitt_Central Park, New York_1974
And the answer is: Elliott Erwitt
Some quotes from the Master:
[Photographer needs:] creativity, style, elegance, wit and craft. [A photojournalist also needs that and] courage, stamina, cunning and luck. - Elliott Erwitt
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera. - Elliott Erwitt
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. - Elliott Erwitt
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice. - Elliott Erwitt
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. - Elliott Erwitt
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that. - On the Question: "What marks the difference between a competent photographer and a really great photographer?" - Elliott Erwitt
Being shy is quite useful to a photographer, because it gives you the opportunity of not being shy once you have the field of a camera before you. It protects you from being shy. - Elliott Erwitt
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. - Elliott Erwitt
Digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.... - Elliott Erwitt
I am unspecialized in a very specialized profession. Some commercial clients aren't quite sure how to take me. Some probably think I'm dead because I've been around so long. - Elliott Erwitt
ELLIOTT ERWITT
(1928 - )
Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris, France) is an advertising and journalistic photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings -- the master of the "indecisive moment".
American, born in Paris to Russian immigrant parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.
While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
In 1953 Erwitt joined Magnum Photos and worked as a freelance photographer for Collier's, Look, Life, Holiday and other luminaries in that golden period for illustrated magazines. To this day he is for hire and continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.
In the late 1960s Erwitt served as Magnum's president for three years. He then turned to film: in the 1970s he produced several noted documentaries and in the 1980s eighteen comedy films for Home Box Office. Erwitt became known for benevolent irony, and for a sense of humor touched with melancholy, as well as a humanistic sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of important museums and galleries and private collectors around the world.
Education
1948/50 Film, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1942/44 Photography, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, USA
Text organized by me, A.Miguel Oliveira, adapted from Magnum Photos
Some extra photos:
#4: Elliott Erwitt_The Eiffel Tower on its 100th anniversary_1989
#5: Elliott Erwitt_On the set of The Misfits_1960
#6: Elliott Erwitt_North Carolina, USA_1950
#7: Elliott Erwitt_New York_2000
#8: Elliott Erwitt_New York_1946
#9: Elliott Erwitt_Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Seven Year Itch_1955
#10: Elliott Erwitt_Le Louvre_1975
#11: Elliott Erwitt_Jacqueline Kennedy, Arlington, Virginia_1963
#12: Elliott Erwitt_Fort Dix, New Jersey_1951
#13: Elliott Erwitt_Buzios, Brazil_1990
Hope you've enjoyed ;). Next post soon!
Try to guess the author's name till Wednesday night, the 8th April (Easter Holidays;)), (maybe also the decade it was taken), when I'll reveal his/her name .
You may post your guess since now! Suggestion: if you are convinced you really guessed, please let the master's name initials, instead, as well as for someone well known in his/her pictures) for others to go on trying! Thanks.
I'll post 3 pics from each photographer to show different views from himself, and to make it easier to guess. After his/her name revelation, I'll post at least some more photos just for your extended pleasure, as well as a new Master work for a new turn in the game ;)
You may choose, also, to make some comments on the pics themselves, both in a "woophyan" way as you do in your comments [don't hesitate to criticize a Master, for bad or good;)], or in a more general point of view, if you like. Thanks and enjoy!
#1. Elliott Erwitt_California_1955
#2. Elliott Erwitt_Provence_1955
#3. Elliott Erwitt_Central Park, New York_1974
And the answer is: Elliott Erwitt
Some quotes from the Master:
[Photographer needs:] creativity, style, elegance, wit and craft. [A photojournalist also needs that and] courage, stamina, cunning and luck. - Elliott Erwitt
Balance of light is the problem, not the amount. Balance between shadows and highlights determines where the emphasis goes in the picture...make sure the major light in a picture falls at right angles to the camera. - Elliott Erwitt
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. - Elliott Erwitt
All the technique in the world doesn’t compensate for the inability to notice. - Elliott Erwitt
The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words. - Elliott Erwitt
Photography is a craft. Anyone can learn a craft with normal intelligence and application. To take it beyond the craft is something else. That's when magic comes in. And I don't know that there's any explanation for that. - On the Question: "What marks the difference between a competent photographer and a really great photographer?" - Elliott Erwitt
Being shy is quite useful to a photographer, because it gives you the opportunity of not being shy once you have the field of a camera before you. It protects you from being shy. - Elliott Erwitt
You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy. - Elliott Erwitt
Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment. - Elliott Erwitt
Digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.... - Elliott Erwitt
I am unspecialized in a very specialized profession. Some commercial clients aren't quite sure how to take me. Some probably think I'm dead because I've been around so long. - Elliott Erwitt
ELLIOTT ERWITT
(1928 - )
Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris, France) is an advertising and journalistic photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings -- the master of the "indecisive moment".
American, born in Paris to Russian immigrant parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.
While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
In 1953 Erwitt joined Magnum Photos and worked as a freelance photographer for Collier's, Look, Life, Holiday and other luminaries in that golden period for illustrated magazines. To this day he is for hire and continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.
In the late 1960s Erwitt served as Magnum's president for three years. He then turned to film: in the 1970s he produced several noted documentaries and in the 1980s eighteen comedy films for Home Box Office. Erwitt became known for benevolent irony, and for a sense of humor touched with melancholy, as well as a humanistic sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of important museums and galleries and private collectors around the world.
Education
1948/50 Film, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1942/44 Photography, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, USA
Text organized by me, A.Miguel Oliveira, adapted from Magnum Photos
Some extra photos:
#4: Elliott Erwitt_The Eiffel Tower on its 100th anniversary_1989
#5: Elliott Erwitt_On the set of The Misfits_1960
#6: Elliott Erwitt_North Carolina, USA_1950
#7: Elliott Erwitt_New York_2000
#8: Elliott Erwitt_New York_1946
#9: Elliott Erwitt_Marilyn Monroe during the filming of The Seven Year Itch_1955
#10: Elliott Erwitt_Le Louvre_1975
#11: Elliott Erwitt_Jacqueline Kennedy, Arlington, Virginia_1963
#12: Elliott Erwitt_Fort Dix, New Jersey_1951
#13: Elliott Erwitt_Buzios, Brazil_1990
Hope you've enjoyed ;). Next post soon!
Comments
# posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on May 1st, 2010 11:15 pm
Merci bien, B.! :)
i forgot a link:
http://www.map-photo.fr/
http://www.map-photo.fr/
you're still in time to see a lot of his work in Toulouse ( 1st to 30th may ) : une merveille !!!
# posted by Leonor Lapa on March 31st, 2009 11:35 am
I have found him too, easy, with all these tracks!!
I already knew much of his work, who doesnt know?
Humor, wit, taste, opportunity, are his signature!!
I already knew much of his work, who doesnt know?
Humor, wit, taste, opportunity, are his signature!!
# posted by Leonor Lapa on March 30th, 2009 11:42 pm
Yes I love this pictures!!! The author has a fun vision!!
We are very glad to have you here again!!
I gona drink a glass (or two) of Rioja to celebrate it!! ;-)
We are very glad to have you here again!!
I gona drink a glass (or two) of Rioja to celebrate it!! ;-)
I saw a great number of his photos and they are so humorous I'm buying a book through Amazon. I think one deserves a book like this after having put up with Woophians for a year :))) Just kidding. Thanks to all and specially to Miguel, whose absence was "pungent" too.
I already know who the photographer is....savoir français est très bon...j'ai trouvé un article du Figaro sur lui...so now I've become an expert on photography. Thanks, Miguel.....you're a really good teacher, motivation is one of the main weapons to teach how to learn.
BTW, I wish you relaxing Easter holidays...forget school and take photos for us to see.
E que o FCP ganhe, carago!
BTW, I wish you relaxing Easter holidays...forget school and take photos for us to see.
E que o FCP ganhe, carago!
# posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on March 29th, 2009 6:02 pm
@Christian, don't say that...;)))
@Brigitte, heureusement je peux lire en français;)
@Kolibri: yes, he did;))
@Virgínia: only french born...;)
@Brigitte, heureusement je peux lire en français;)
@Kolibri: yes, he did;))
@Virgínia: only french born...;)
I subscribe what Calafate has written....know nothing about photographers, but that's why I'm here...:))
Through google we can find lots of things...( but, Paulo, not the result of M-FCP's match, I'm afraid!!)
I'm still trying...I know he's French...that's a start.
Through google we can find lots of things...( but, Paulo, not the result of M-FCP's match, I'm afraid!!)
I'm still trying...I know he's French...that's a start.
he made a book about dogs no?
Your blog is simply great and you select all my favorites, I study this guys for years and all my life I try to emule and imitate his photograps...Thanks to work in this great masters.
Next time I dont say to much info...promise :-)
S
Next time I dont say to much info...promise :-)
S
a reporter said of him "Ses photos sont pétillantes et se savourent comme le champagne. Elles grisent et piquent" ; i think these words are perfect to caracterize his work but, unfortunately, they would loose all their "pungency" with a translation :)
# posted by Christian C on March 27th, 2009 3:56 pm
I know the photo n°3 and the photographer is easy to find with a google search.
# posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on March 27th, 2009 3:33 pm
@Abílio: yes, Sérgio is a bad guy, he tells everything saying he belongs to Magnum ;)))). Hehehe, Abílio, I think this Master is the right one for these days at Woophy! Try to see his whole collection: he his really the man who makes me laugh for a wonderful catch: photography at its best;)
Ok I got it, thanks to your clue Sercas. A very creative photographer with a good sense of humour indeed.
# posted by A.Miguel Oliveira on March 27th, 2009 3:30 pm
@Abílio: Thanks for the Pink;).
Regarding the Masters: try to buy any of those small books from Taschen (7€), like "Fotografia do século XX", for instance.
A great (and more expensive) book is "Master Photographers" by Pat Booth (at Mcmillan), in english.
@Joris: Oops, it was also my wedding pic at the central table;)))
@Sérgio: next time, and only for you;))), I'll ask for the third letters in their names;). In this case, it should be, as you know, L+W...;). Thanks for saying you enjoy the game. It takes me such a hard work to held it, that it's good to know some members will go on enjoying!
Oh, yes, he's a great humourist and the biggest in dog's portraits in action;)
@Paulo: sim, na Fnac vê os Taschen baratuchos;). Oh yes, this Master has his book closed to colourful frames;))). Anyway, if anyone from Woophy could be misleaded as the author of some of his pics, it should be you (for the humour and the portraits of cat's friends, mr.dogs;) or Akbar (for the street photography).
@Zeeg: yes, that pic was taken in France (Provence)!;). Though he is not french, he was born there, from russian parents, and lived in Italy, before becoming an ... citizen;). Thank you for coming to the blog!
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Regarding the Masters: try to buy any of those small books from Taschen (7€), like "Fotografia do século XX", for instance.
A great (and more expensive) book is "Master Photographers" by Pat Booth (at Mcmillan), in english.
@Joris: Oops, it was also my wedding pic at the central table;)))
@Sérgio: next time, and only for you;))), I'll ask for the third letters in their names;). In this case, it should be, as you know, L+W...;). Thanks for saying you enjoy the game. It takes me such a hard work to held it, that it's good to know some members will go on enjoying!
Oh, yes, he's a great humourist and the biggest in dog's portraits in action;)
@Paulo: sim, na Fnac vê os Taschen baratuchos;). Oh yes, this Master has his book closed to colourful frames;))). Anyway, if anyone from Woophy could be misleaded as the author of some of his pics, it should be you (for the humour and the portraits of cat's friends, mr.dogs;) or Akbar (for the street photography).
@Zeeg: yes, that pic was taken in France (Provence)!;). Though he is not french, he was born there, from russian parents, and lived in Italy, before becoming an ... citizen;). Thank you for coming to the blog!
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# posted by Abílio Silveira on March 27th, 2009 3:25 pm
OK, I found the guy. And Sergio is right: he had a fine sense of humour in his portfolio.
I Zeeg, is not french....is member of magnum agency....:-)
For sure N°2 is shot in France (typical french hat "béret" and bread), but I had a look at some french Masters galleries and I did'nt find. No idea...
# posted by Paulo Calafate on March 27th, 2009 11:51 am
Carago Miguel, não pesco nada disto! A minha cultura fotográfica, em termos de autores, é miserável. Além disso, a não ser que passe uma tarde na FNAC, não sei como hei-de descobrir o raio dos fotógrafos. Uma coisa tenho a certeza, minhas não são... nem do HVDBizet! :)
F.C.P-3 X Manchester-0
F.C.P-3 X Manchester-0
1.- 1955. California.
2.- 1955. France Provence.
3.- 1974. NY
Is one of my favs, because have a good sense of humor.
2.- 1955. France Provence.
3.- 1974. NY
Is one of my favs, because have a good sense of humor.
Wow, I miss your blog....the photographer is E.E.
# 1 I gave the poster to my former girlfriend about 22years ago, can't remember the photographers name though
# posted by Abílio Silveira on March 27th, 2009 12:06 am
Miguel: No idea who the photographer is.
But specially to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-IJ1k_NwE
But specially to you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-IJ1k_NwE