{"id":240763,"date":"2025-07-05T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240763\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:46:12","slug":"elliott-erwitts-humorous-photos-are-collected-in-the-last-laughs-coffee-table-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/240763\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Erwitt&#8217;s Humorous Photos Are Collected in the &#8220;Last Laughs&#8221; Coffee-Table Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the grand tradition of 20th-century photography, there are many great image-makers. But few were so skilled as <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/issues\/2025-5-31\/dog-days\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elliott Erwitt<\/a> when it came to gently capturing the poignant absurdities and paradoxes of the human condition. This delightful new collection, Last Laughs, is a monument to Erwitt\u2019s unique vision and compassionate wit, a tour de force that assembles some of the most indelible photographs from his vast archive.<\/p>\n<p>Erwitt\u2019s sense of humor seems to have been the by-product of an unconventional upbringing. Born in <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/arts-intel\/cities\/paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Paris<\/a> in 1928 to Russian parents, he then lived in Italy before immigrating to the U.S. at age 10. It was as a painfully shy 15-year-old in Hollywood that he traded his watch for a Rolleiflex camera, and an obsession took hold. Erwitt quickly became familiar with the trenches, both literal and metaphorical: having served as a photographer\u2019s assistant in the army, he subsequently launched a career in commercial photography for magazines, advertising agencies, and film studios.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-small\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/air-mail.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>      Enter your e-mail to read the full storyand to receive our weekly e-mail newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Or, <a href=\"https:\/\/airmail.news\/subscribe\/promo-amjuly42550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>subscribe<\/strong><\/a> to AIR MAIL and receive access to all of our content. 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But few were so skilled as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,5621,93594,4022,93595,93596,77,40430,93597,498,2199,57479,93598,93599,93600,93601,1411,93602,93603,93604,332,93605,16,15,49,93606],"class_list":["post-240763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-cadillac","tag-che-guevara","tag-design","tag-edward-steichen","tag-elliott-erwitt","tag-entertainment","tag-graydon-carter","tag-henri-cartier-bresson","tag-hollywood","tag-italy","tag-le-monde","tag-leica","tag-magnum-photos","tag-marilyn-monroe","tag-nathan-king","tag-paris","tag-robert-capa","tag-rolleiflex","tag-rorschach-inkblot-test","tag-russia","tag-teneues","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-yale-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114802116959254341","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}