elliott erwitt | musée maillol paris

The exhibition is a retrospective of Elliott Erwitt's work, the most comprehensive to date. It attempts to present the many facets of his work and to identify its distinctive features: humour, irony tinged with tenderness, an ever-awakening curiosity, an emphasis on emotion, which this educated man favours over any dry intellectual approach. Especially the humanism, that pervades the entirety of his work. As he himself has said: "In fact, to say that there is humanity in my photographs is the greatest compliment I have ever received. His business, he said, is "the human condition", and so is ours.