The Photos Of Elliott Erwitt
Peter Conrad: ‘It’s all very well for a photograph to still life and immobilise a moment, but we can’t help wondering what comes next, when time resumes and the transfixed bodies stop pretending to be dead. Elliott Erwitt’s sequences reveal the afterlife of photographs, in cinematic jump cuts that show people or animals kinetically recovering from the poses that the camera inflicts on them. Once a tragedy ends, the human comedy is bound to resume.’
