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Provenance
The photographer to Richard Coplan, circa 2012
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (Kempen, 2009), p. 100
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
Fellow photographer Ernst Haas noted: "[Erwitt] has a special feeling for the - what they say in German, the kreatur - of those lowly, down-trodden individuals who persist in the face of adversity. To photograph this in humans sometimes degrades them. But Elliott does this with animals in such a way that everybody recognizes human qualities there, and it becomes more delicate." (quoted in The Personal Experience: Elliott Erwitt, p. 37)