Elliott Erwitt | New Rochelle, NY, 1955
A nice domestic scene with his wife and kids. Erwitt’s son Misha interviewed him about this photo:
Misha: You took a photograph in 1955 of our mother cooking dinner, her back to the camera. She has Ellen, who’s crying, in one arm and she’s reaching into the oven with the other. I’m sitting behind them in a high chair and there’s another kid standing, watching.
What’s the back story to that photo? Also, you were traveling all over the world, on the road constantly. What was it like to come home from an exotic locale to a house full of screaming kids?
Elliott: There is no story behind that photo, just a moment of the normal chaos of a family with numerous children. I loved coming back home to screaming children.
Interview with Todd Hido from Pier 24 Photography
Todd Hido also joined Instagram recently. You can follow him here.
Going on hiatus
I’d like to keep this blog going, but for now I have more pressing priorities. Sorry.
Polly Chandler | Fly Away, Austin, Texas, 2009
Also see her Flickr photostream.
Martin Parr, from Contacts, a 3-volume DVD series (now out of print) of photographers’ commentary on their own works.
Arnold Newman | Igor Stravinsky, 1946
Cropped final result (top) and a print from the original negative (bottom).
Andreas Feininger | Texaco station, Route 66, Seligman, Arizona, 1947
Here’s a slightly different shot, taken moments apart from this one.
André Kertész | Shadows of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1929
Chris Verene | My cousin Candi’s wedding with her two favorite customers from her job at the Sirloin Stockade, 1993, from the Galesburg Series, where he has been documenting his family since 1984.
