Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023); 'Kyoto, Japan' (Sidewalk);

Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) 'Kyoto, Japan' (Sidewalk), 1977 Gelatin silver print, printed later; signed in ink in the margin, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Boca Raton Museum of Art label on the reverse. 21 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (54 x 36.2 cm.) sheet 23 7/8 x 20 in. (60.6 x 50.8 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012 Literature Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 168 Exhibited Elliott Erwitt: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Coplan and Martin R. Mallinger, Boca Raton Museum of Art, 9 November 2014 - 11 January 2015 The Art of Observation: The Best of Photographer Elliott Erwitt, D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts / Springfield Museums, 9 November 2019 - 12 January 2020; Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, 17 September - 31 December 2022 Note 'My professional work for advertising or magazine articles takes me to all parts of the world, traveling almost constantly. Many of the photos here were taken on these business trips, while I was waiting for the commercial shots to be set up or at the end of the working day. They were taken, in other words, because I like to keep busy. 'If I were a civilian, instead of a photographer, I wouldn't have come upon many of these situations. Yet how ordinary they may seem at first, not dramatic or eventful. They require more than one look. I'd be happy if they didn't really come across until the third look, and then hit dead center.' (Elliott Erwitt, quoted in Elliott Erwitt: Between the Sexes, p. 12-13) For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing