Wyoming
Artist
Elliott Erwitt
(American, born France, 1928-2023)
Date1954
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches (21.59 x 34.29 cm)
Framed: 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (46.99 x 57.15 cm)
Framed: 18 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches (46.99 x 57.15 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3955
InscribedSignature
Signed in artist's hand
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In the 1950s, the theme of travel was intimately linked to ideas of both personal and national identity. Beat writers like Jack Kerouac celebrated the gritty adventure of the cross-country road trip; similarly photographers embraced the national cult of the automobile and the lure of the open road. This image, taken during his own journey west, suggests Elliott Erwitt’s peculiar visual experience of an automobile journey in America: the continuous stream of sights, signs, road and landscape, experienced through the frame of a car window or windshield.
Copyright© Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos
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