Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best at ICP MAY 20–AUGUST 28

--I got Mr. Elliott Erwitt's autograph at Icp today. I knew his show has just started, and Friday night was free admission at ICP. But I didn't expect that he was sitting there for a book signing event. I didn't have enough money to purchase his new photography book ($55), but I bought his notebook ($14.95), and he was nice enough to sign it for me. He was a cool guy. His show was about his personal best selected from his life-long works since 1948. His photographs are human, humorous, sophisticated, and precise that I am truly inspired. 

"This major retrospective showcases the career of photographer and filmmaker Elliott Erwitt (1928 -), the recipient of this year's ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement. Distinguished as both a documentary and commercial photographer, Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the twentieth century, including portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, and Che Guevara, as well as astonishing scenes of everyday life, filled with poetry, wit, and special sense of humor. Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian émigrés, Erwitt grew up in Italy and France and emigrated to America with his family in 1939. An active photographer since 1948, Erwitt sought out Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker in New York in the early 1950s, and they became his mentors. With Capa's encouragement, Erwitt joined Magnum Photos in 1953. Erwitt is both an eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera, whose images have been widely published in the international press and in more than twenty books. On view are over 100 of his favorite images from the past sixty years, as well as some previously unseen and unpublished prints from his early work.".