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| Scanned image from booklet |
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| Elliot Erwitt - Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956 My scanned and cropped image |
I felt Erwitt was trying to capture another side to Marilyn in this picture. She is always shown facing the camera, showing her face and her body but this time she is looking away with her hand on her face. It's like he was trying to portray her in thought. What was she thinking, using her script as a prop, maybe he captured her during work and so we think about what work she doing, what is she preparing for, is she bored of it because of her body language. She is wearing a dressing gown it looks like, maybe she is in her own home, her own personal environment. Erwitt seemed to want to capture this relaxed side to her yet still keeping the essence of her classic images going: her beauty.
Erwitt is usually famous for his humorous photos on beaches and dogs. For example he says " the beach is a place to go see wonderful wide open spaces .... and pile on top of each other."
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| Ste. Maxime, France 1978 - Elliot Erwitt |
" I've been taking pictures of beaches since I've been taking pictures, because it reflects my general attitude toward life: combine work with pleasure. You look at girls; you get a suntan; you might catch a photo that works."
Erwitt's Monroe series seems to show him trying to go in a different direction. However you can still see him humorous side in the Monroe image because he has captured an aspect of her that you do not usually see and so he succeeds on making a Monroe picture his own.
The main part of the work was about how the image was processed. We had to show all specific measurements. The image size is 140 x 210 mm; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches and the image number shown in the collectors editions booket is 978 0 7148 4240 0. The image was printed using a silver gelatin process which is a standard black and white print. This information really helped me to understand more about the work.
Through this task I learnt a lot about what really goes on when making an image. Having to know exact measurements for the image, border, the presentation of it, the way it was printed, the meaning behind it and of course what I think about the image.
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| my A3 process image |
The main part of the work was about how the image was processed. We had to show all specific measurements. The image size is 140 x 210 mm; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches and the image number shown in the collectors editions booket is 978 0 7148 4240 0. The image was printed using a silver gelatin process which is a standard black and white print. This information really helped me to understand more about the work.
Through this task I learnt a lot about what really goes on when making an image. Having to know exact measurements for the image, border, the presentation of it, the way it was printed, the meaning behind it and of course what I think about the image.
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| silver gelatin printing process |
Sources
Measurements on image - Phaidon Press Collector's Edition [Accessed 23rd November 2011]
Magnumphotos. 2011 . Magnumphotos. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.magnumphotos.com/image/NYC13852.html [Accessed 11th December 2011]
Erwitt. E E . 1991. Elliot Erwitt: On the beach. 1st ed. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc New York and Ltd London.
Magnumphotos. 2011 . Magnumphotos. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.magnumphotos.com/image/NYC13852.html [Accessed 11th December 2011]
Erwitt. E E . 1991. Elliot Erwitt: On the beach. 1st ed. New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc New York and Ltd London.
Google Images. 2011. Google Images. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.google.com/imghp. [Accessed 11 December 2011]
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