Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK) - art museum for modern and contemporary art
It is a pleasure to experience Elliott Erwitt's vintage items in the special exhibition in Karlsruhe, the city where Ewitt served as a U.S. soldier in the 1950s. Army was stationed
The special exhibition “Elliott Erwitt’s Vintages” runs until January 26, 2025.
Karlsruhe. The Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK) - art museum for modern and contemporary art - has designed the special exhibition "Elliott Erwitt's Vintages" in collaboration with the MAGNUM photo agency, which can be seen until January 26, 2025. The SGK looks at the humorous and documentary work of the great Magnum photographer Elliott Erwitt (1928 in Paris - 2023 in New York) in five sections. By 2023, the photographer Elliott Erwitt had created a large, iconic work of black and white photographs that shaped the collective visual memory worldwide. His photographs are partly humorous, partly documentary and narrative, but always authentic and recognizable as Elliott Erwitt - that was his visual language and made each photograph an "icon of photography". His portraits of people or animals capture personality.
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| Elliott Erwitt, center: Set of Misfits, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Clift Montgomery, Eli Wallach and Arthur Miller Reno Nevada 1960, RIGHT: Elliott Erwitt, FRANCE. Provence. 1955, shop window of the Stephen Hoffman Gallery in Munich, photo: Helga Waess -
courtesy: Galerie Stephen Hoffman,
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Elliott Erwitt’s recordings “Made in Karlsruhe” from the 1950s
It is a pleasure to experience Elliott Erwitt's vintages in the special exhibition in Karlsruhe. They return to the city where Ewitt was stationed in the 1950s. In the few “Made in Karlsruhe” photos from this period, the photographer takes pictures during his military service for the U.S. Army begins life in the fan-shaped city.
The rare and partly never-before-seen vintage photographs seem like a journey through time.
In his motifs, the photographer becomes a narrator with the camera. The past Karlsruhe can be experienced by the viewer through his personal vita as well as through universal stories.
Elliott Erwitt's portrait photographs of celebrities from the film industry and politics
Elliott Erwitt photographed the former US President John F. Kennedy, as well as the actress Marilyn Monroe and the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. He captured the characters and created symbols in his photos that went around the world.
Elliott Erwitt is the photographer of moments big and small
Erwitt turns seemingly banal things into iconic images. He has a feeling for the moment, for that moment that makes the simple special. Stars, politicians, unknown people and especially dogs become protagonists of the moment in Erwitt's black and white photographs.
Dogs and pet owners or the strange behavior when looking at works of art are seen through his lens and are narratively valuable.
Elliott Erwitt was president of the Magnum Photos agency from 1966 to 1969 and Erwitt was vice president of Magnum Photos from 1974 to 1980.
Elliott Erwitt died on November 29, 2023 in New York City at the age of 95.
Special exhibition “Elliott Erwitt’s Vintages”
- until January 26, 2025
Municipal Gallery Karlsruhe / Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
Lorenzstrasse 27
76135 Karlsruhe
ADDENDUM:
Our personal encounter with Elliott Erwitt in Munich in the "Galerie Stephen Hoffman - Fine Art Photography"
We were lucky enough to meet Elliott Erwitt in person in Munich several times over the last two decades at the "Galerie Stephen Hoffman - Fine Art Photography". The magnum photographer was personally present in several exhibitions with Elliott Erwitt's limited collector's photographs and it was always an experience for all visitors to experience the "old master of photo art" in the midst of his photographs. In 2003 we met Elliott Erwitt at the gallery exhibition for his 75th anniversary, where Stephen Hoffman presented photographs from 1949 - 1990 in Munich. This was followed by the exhibition “ELLIOTT ERWITT – Photographs & Vintages” in 2005, the photo exhibition “ELLIOTT ERWITT – 80th anniversary – Photographs” in 2008 and finally the show “Elliott Erwitt “Classic Images” in 2016. To this day, collectors can find works in the Munich Gallery at the back of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof Vintages and limited originals by photographer Elliott Erwitt.
