Mt. Fuji and Sign, Mt. Fuji, Japan, ca. 1979
Gelatin silver print
12 x 8 inches
Artist Quotes:
“Photography is all about waiting – like fishing.”
“I don’t believe that photography can change the world, but it can show the world changing.” Head to Head: A Conversation with Marc Riboud and Elliott Erwitt – 2010
“I hope that they’ll be amused, perhaps instructed, and that some kind of emotion will be extracted from them, good or bad.” Artspace: Meet the Artist –October 15, 2012
“My intention was simply to see what I saw. And to take pictures of that. I have no preconceptions.” Portlandart.net – March 20, 2007
Additional Links:
Jessica Bromer interviews Elliott Erwitt about how he got involved with photography, how he chooses subject matter, how it has developed over the years and what digital photography has offered to the art world.
California Landscape into Abstraction Research 