16th Nov, 2024 20:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2024 at Fotografiska Shanghai

 
Lot 30
 

ELLIOTT ERWITT (1928–2023) | Mother and child, New York City, USA 1953
艾略特·厄威特 (1928–2023) | 母与子,美国纽约市,1953年

Sold for €4,400


Lot details

Start price: € 2,800

Estimate: € 5,000–6,000

Start price: RMB 22,000

Estimate: RMB 38,000–45,000

Size: 35.9 x 55 cm

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1989 on double-weight semi-matte paper 50.6 x 60.5 cm, in very good condition. Magnum's "In our Time" exhibition blindstamp and signed by the photographer in ink in the lower margin, negative number "212/2" in pencil on the reverse. LITERATURE William Manchester (ed.), In our Time. The world as seen by Magnum photographers, London 1989, p. 229; Elliott Erwitt, Photographs and Anti-Photographs. Introduction by John Szarkowski, London 1972, p. 78.

In 1953, Elliott Erwitt was starting a family in his home of New York City. His candid snapshot of his first wife Lucienne, their baby and a cat, has since become recognized as a classic example of photography in the humanist tradition.

明胶银盐照片,1989年印制于双重重量半哑光纸上,尺寸50.6 x 60.5厘米,状况非常好。马格南的“In our Time”展览钢印,摄影师在下边缘用墨水签名,背面用铅笔写有底片编号“212/2”。文献:William Manchester(编),《In our Time. The world as seen by Magnum photographers》,伦敦1989年,第229页;艾略特·厄威特(Elliott Erwitt),《Photographs and Anti-Photographs》,约翰·萨尔科夫斯基(John Szarkowski)作序,伦敦1972年,第78页。1953年,艾略特·厄威特在他位于纽约市的家中开始了一个家庭。他对他的第一任妻子露西安娜、他们的婴儿和一只猫的抓拍,自此被认为是人文主义传统摄影的经典例子。