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Subject: [Leica] Elliot Erwitt
From: keith at wesselphoto.com (Keith Wessel)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 19:41:47 -0600
References: <CADjf=XKtutCDCGaD_rNVUusdwXw2zj-a0LbkZ1y0qUB3qBEayw@mail.gmail.com> <183c771e-1f9f-468e-9a1e-b941f5ff4167@iol.ie>

I posted a couple photos I took of Elliot Erwitt in 1987

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/krwessel/ellioterwitt/1746-4904+copy.jpg.html
 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/krwessel/ellioterwitt/1746-4904+copy.jpg.html>

Thirty years later I had an opportunity to go to a show with Erwitt photos 
on one side and HCB on the other.  Erwitt used one room to feature Andre S. 
Solider.  I must say he had amusing photos in that room.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/9687/1/the-art-of-andre-s-solidor-aka-elliott-erwitt
 
<https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/9687/1/the-art-of-andre-s-solidor-aka-elliott-erwitt>

> On Dec 5, 2023, at 2:40 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> He sent you back your photos too! Pretty decent guy.
> Douglas
> 
> On 04/12/2023 16:31, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
>> Not only was Elliott Erwitt a great photographer, but a kind person.
>> 
>> In 1988 I sent him some of my humorous B&W photos (now in my Enigmatic
>> Album), and he responded with a hand-written note.
>> <
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Enigmatic/19881018_EE_Notecard_2.jpg.html
> 
> 
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