Elliott Erwitt
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"Paris, France, 1989"
Signed Elliott Erwitt. Gelatin silver print, image 61.2 x 91 cm. Sheet 76 x 101 cm.
Provenance
Hamburg Kennedy Photographs, New York
Literature
Elliott Erwitt, "Elliott Erwitts Paris", 2017, illustrated on the cover.
Elliott Erwitt, "Elliott Erwitt New York/Paris Box Set", 2015, illustrated.
Elliott Erwitt, "Elliott Erwitt's Paris", 2015, illustrated on the cover.
Elliott Erwitt, "Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best", 2018, illustrated on p. 184-185.
More information
This amazing gelatin silver print by Elliott Erwitt is titled "Paris, France, 1989" but more known as "The Umbrella Jump". It is one of Erwitt’s most well-known pictures. This photo was taken at Place du Trocadero in conjunction with the centennial jubilee of the Eiffel tower that opened in 1889. This image is so typical for what signifies Erwitt’s body of work. He’s very skilled at capturing the moment and you can easily see that he has studied film making and worked with film. The Umbrella Jump has some very obvious references to the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, an icon within photography and the person who claimed the expression "The Decisive Moment”. He was one of Erwitt’s greatest inspirations. One of Cartier-Bresson’s most well-known images depicts a man jumping between the puddles behind Gare St. Lazare in Paris.