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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Sam Holmes, Elliott Erwitt: Photographs and Anti-Photographs (Greenwich, 1972), p. 112
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 172
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
This photograph documents a queue for confession in the courtyard of the Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa, Poland. Erwitt's framing highlights parallel activities on each side of the image: at the left, an official confession occurs between a priest and a man, while two women share a whispered conversation - perhaps a different sort of confessional - at the far right.