Elliot Erwitt retrospective in Bradford, UK

[vincentbenoit]

The NMPFT in Bradford is holding a retrospective of Elliot Erwitt's work until May 1st.
http://www.nmpft.org.uk/exhibitions/erwitt/
There's even a talk and book signing session by the Master himself on 26 April.

Has anybody seen the exhibition yet? Does it offer a chance to see less known work by Erwitt in addition to his widely published pictures?

Cheers,
Vincent

[Dave H]

I'll let you know I'm planning to go next Sunday

[tom_f77]

The piece on him and the exhibition in B+W does mention "less well known work", but I don't know yet; I'm also planning to go soon, and maybe again for the talk on the 26th; will report back...

Tom

[taffer]

You can check 136 shots from him at magnumphoto. I did, there's some wonderful work there, his series on pets/people are truly great

[tom_f77]

"Snaps" is a bargain as well, if you like his stuff. 500 pages of well, exactly what it says on the cover.

Tom

[sunsworth]

I went a couple of weeks ago.

An excellent exhibition with about 100 photographs on show. Many of the famous ones are there, but also a number that I at least wasn't familiar with.

Admission to the museum and exhibition is free.

Steve

[sfb_dot_com]

Originally Posted by tom_f77

The piece on him and the exhibition in B+W does mention "less well known work", but I don't know yet; I'm also planning to go soon, and maybe again for the talk on the 26th; will report back...

Tom

Just to clarify to other RFF'ers that you are referring to the article in Black and White Photography magazine which is published here in the UK & may or may not be available in other parts of the world. The exhibition will probably be too far to go for me. I found the article interesting if a little bland.

Andy

[vincentbenoit]

Originally Posted by taffer

You can check 136 shots from him at magnumphoto. I did, there's some wonderful work there, his series on pets/people are truly great

Hey Oscar,

I'm familiar with most of Erwitt's published work (and I love it), that's why I asked whether the exhibition would be an opportunity to see less-known stuff.

Vincent

[vincentbenoit]

Originally Posted by sfb_dot_com

Just to clarify to other RFF'ers that you are referring to the article in Black and White Photography magazine which is published here in the UK & may or may not be available in other parts of the world. The exhibition will probably be too far to go for me. I found the article interesting if a little bland.

Andy,

Thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware of this article. I don't read Black and White Photography - it's the whole magazine I find very bland...

Vincent

[vincentbenoit]

Originally Posted by tom_f77

"Snaps" is a bargain as well, if you like his stuff. 500 pages of well, exactly what it says on the cover.

Tom

Hey Tom,

I agree that the book would have benefited from a harder edit, maybe to half its size, but it still contains a lot of extremely good pictures in my opinion. "Snaps" they might be, but only insofar as they are of the reactive, rather than conceptual, type of images. You can't take away from Erwitt the fact that he really had a knack for capturing evocative moments with total control over composition and perspective.

That said, I understand that some people prefer Friedlander...

Vincent

[tom_f77]

Originally Posted by vincentbenoit

Hey Tom,

I agree that the book would have benefited from a harder edit, maybe to half its size, but it still contains a lot of extremely good pictures in my opinion. "Snaps" they might be, but only insofar as they are of the reactive, rather than conceptual, type of images. You can't take away from Erwitt the fact that he really had a knack for capturing evocative moments with total control over composition and perspective.

That said, I understand that some people prefer Friedlander...

Vincent

Hey; he chose the title, not me! I do like Friedlander, but I absolutely agree that Erwitt is brilliant as well. I am in awe of both and should have been more careful with what I wrote