Erwitt's Dog Photo

OK, you asked for it, and I actually was able to dig up the old publication where I first saw this photo in 1974. And as you may note from my description of the image in the other tread, my mind is like a steel trap and the details are exact! (of course, that trap is often closed tight and nothing gets in or out, but sometimes it works)

Here is a "snapshot" photo that was taken by photographer Elliott Erwitt showing a street scene with Nelson Rockefeller talking to a small crowd while someone's dog casts his vote on a nearby power pole. Even though Elliott was most likely being paid to stand there and take photos (he was one of the most successful photogs of the day and these sorts of "candid" photos were his trademark), it is a perfect example of why it is a good idea to have a camera with you ready to shoot, and that it also pays to look for other things going on and not just the main event...

Elliott Erwitt's Dog Photo

That's HILARIOUS!!!!

I knew I'd heard that name before - from a review of "famous" photographers a local professor did for our camera club. Such fantastic photos - I wonder what his "keeper" ratio was!

Here are some more

He did a lot of dog photos, and also used mirrors a lot, kind of like the dog at the drive-thru - a classic Erwitt photo taken by one of our own! The soft-cover book that I have has a lot of short snippets from him about the photos, and also includes a number of contact sheets showing all the images he took - that part is the most interesting to me. (Do any of you remember contact sheets?) One of his most famous photos - the one with the lady and naked baby and cat - was of his wife and newborn child. That image is frame #2, and was the only frame he shot of that scene. I would have taken a hundred or more just to make sure I got one right! Erwitt didn't have to (nor could he afford to at the time - he was a classic starving artist).