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...Shyness helped to make me a photographer. In high school I discovered that a camera gets you into situations where you don't really belong. Then, it was proms; now, it's the White House or the back rooms of the Kremlin." Erwitt has gained access to such figures as the president and Soviet party leaders as a freelance photographer for Magnum, a photographic agency, headed by Robert Capa...
...freelancer documenting world events Erwitt's work is necessarily documentary in nature. Erwitt created vignettes of everyday life in cities as diverse as San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and Tehran, Iran...
...work is quite complex, capturing a range of human emotions. "Some people say my pictures are sad. Some think they're funny. Funny and sad, aren't they really the same thing?" says Erwitt...
...right about that. One of his funniest photographs is of a soaking wet dog, standing outside an open door of a shop in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The dog yearns to be invited in, a weary traveler seeking shelter from the rain. The way in which Erwitt photographs this dog is both amusing and poignant...
Dogs recur as an important element in many of his photographs, and Erwitt attributes his fascination with the animals to their "anthropomorphic appeal." "Dogs are simply funny when you catch them in certain situations...But dogs [also] have human qualities...