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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt's Handbook (New York, 2003), p. 89
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 370
Exhibited
Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, Personal Choice, Chanel Nexus Hall, Toyko, 6 April - May 6 2007
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
For three months in 1964, Elliott Erwitt traveled more than 1,000 miles throughout Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary to complete a commission for a Life World Library book on these Eastern European countries. He was given complete freedom to photograph whatever he desired. This image documents a bittersweet farewell at the Budapest train station. After the 1956 Hungarian Revoluation, authorities closed the borders to working-age adults, thus allowing only senior citizens to leave the country. Erwitt subtly captured a host of emotions expressed in the faces of both the train passengers and onlookers.