【50摄影大师介绍】之十三, 艾略特．欧维特 Elliott Erwitt

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【50摄影大师介绍】之十三, 艾略特．欧维特 Elliott Erwitt简介

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50 Masters of Photography (13) --- Elliott Erwitt

Born on July 26, 1928, in Paris, Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan. His family moved back to Paris in 1938, and immigrated to New York the following year then moved to Los Angeles in 1941. His interest in photography began while he was a teenager living in Hollywood. While attending Hollywood High School, he began working in a commercial darkroom in 1944. In 1948 Erwitt moved to New York, there he met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker. After spending the year 1949 traveling in France and Italy, Erwitt returned to New York and began working as a professional photographer. Drafted into the army in 1951, he continued to take photographs while stationed in Germany and France.

Elliott Erwitt was invited to join Magnum Photos in 1953 by Robert Capa. A member of the prestigious agency ever since, Erwitt has served several terms as its president . One of the leading figures in the competitive field of magazine photography, Erwitts journalistic essays, illustrations, and advertisements have been featured in publications around the world for more than forty years.

While continuing his work as a still photographer, Erwitt began making films in 1970. His documentaries includes BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN (1971), RED WHITE AND BLUEGRASS (1973) made with the assistance of an American Film Institute grant, and the prize winning GLASS MAKERS OF HERAT (1977). Erwitt has produced seventeen comedy and satire specials for Home Box Office.

Erwitt has had one-man exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries around the world including New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, Paris' Museum of Modern Art, Zurich's Kunsthaus and Cologne's Photokina. Several editions of a large retrospective exhibition based on his book Personal Exposures have been touring the United States Europe and Japan since 1989. Other exhibitions in circulation around the world, include "To The Dogs", "On The Beach" and "Museum Watching" A major exhibition of Erwitt's Photographs dating from 1946 to 2001 opened at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid July 2002 quickly followed by one at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan Italy A new exhibition based on his book "Personal Best" is scheduled for spring 2007 in Tokyo and will travel afterward to various Asian and European venues.

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摄影长青树 Elliott Erwitt 说："摄影是一条很艰难的路，人很多，机会却很少。我最好的建议就是，找一份稳定的工作，因为快乐而摄影，说到底，摄影只是一种消磨时间的绝佳方式。"

这话中肯，业余菜鸟们记下了。

Elliott Erwitt又说："适当的后期修改是可以允许的，但完全不能接受的是使用过渡人为手段处理照片来达到难以置信的画面效果，这是我们的悲哀。"

喜欢狂拉曲线的童鞋们好象听见了。

Elliott Erwitt一直很勤劳，前两年还出本新书《UNSEEN》，人们就问这么大把年纪为啥还折腾捏？

老头儿回答："我在这个行业待得太久了，绝大多数图片编辑们都以为我已不在人世。我总得做点什么，你说是不？"

非常喜欢这老头，他严肃，他幽默，他含蓄，他犀利，佩服他惊人的观察力和画面组织能力。他不太象布列松那样固执地坚持完美构图，他的照片更侧重于反映人性的光彩和人生的快乐。很多照片你看了会忍俊不禁，没办法，在表面平平淡淡的片子里他总能藏着蔫坏蔫坏的幽默，这一点，真是让人喜欢。

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	50 摄影大师介绍之一	安塞尔·亚当斯 Ansel Easton Adam
	50 摄影大师介绍之二	爱德华·韦斯顿 Edward Henry Weston
	50 摄影大师介绍之三	格丽特·伯克-怀特 Margaret Bourke-White
	50 摄影大师介绍之四	盖伦.罗威尔 Galen Rowell
	50 摄影大师介绍之五	朵洛西亚·蓝吉 Dorothea Lange
	50 摄影大师介绍之六	阿尔弗雷德·斯蒂格里茨 Alfred Stieglitz
	50 摄影大师介绍之七	罗伯特·杜瓦诺 Robert Doisneau
	50 摄影大师介绍之八	黛安·阿勃斯 Diane Arbus
	50 摄影大师介绍之九	爱德华·斯泰肯 Edward Steichen
	50 摄影大师介绍之十	伊文·潘 Irving Penn
	50 摄影大师介绍之十一	亨利·卡蒂埃－布列松 Henri Cartier-Bresson
	50 摄影大师介绍之十二	阿尔弗雷德·艾森士塔特 Alfred Eisenstaedt
	50 摄影大师介绍之十三	艾略特．欧维特 Elliott Erwitt