Elliott Erwitt (Photofile) author-wendy-walsh for it was then that

for it was then that the perfection of techniques in colour lithography first made mass production possible

as the great poet of post-revolutionary despair

Among the gods of classical antiquity Pan – that distinctive figure combining the physical characteristics of man and goat – is one of the few to have retained a special place in the imaginations of writers and artists

the rays of the rising sun would shine through a special aperture to illuminate the inner passage and chamber

Elliott Erwitt (Photofile) author-wendy-walsh for it was then thatUtterly individual, yet impossible to classify, Elliott Erwitt is one of the most remarkable photographers in America today. Sudden coincidences and chance encounters with objects and situations allow him to capture glimpses of the ridiculous or the comical side of everyday events, and his visual jokes become striking and pithy observations about life. Compassionate, humorous, sinister, playful, bitter, bawdy, lyrical this collection confirms Erwitts