GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS

Happy 95th Birthday Elliott Erwitt.

Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956. Elliott Erwitt

"Whilst at The Art Shop in Oxford I had many a guest signings that I enjoyed above all others (Gilbert & George spring immediately to mind, such fun and so delightful and pleased with their "Mr Andy" they came twice, sculptor David Mach one of the nicest people it has ever been my pleasure to meet, Col Glen Baxter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu (hilarious - JOYOUS man!) and photographers Eve Arnold, Robert Doisneau but I particularly recall the joyous visit by Elliot Erwitt and we went for lunch and treated him with the greatest respect but he was incredibly funny, generous and kind and one of the most likeable people I ever met.  

There is a shot of us returning from a lovely lunch walking the Broad Street in Oxford as memory serves taken by the equally brilliant photographer Norman MacBeath and we are both laughing. Wonderful man. Possibly possessed of genius! IMHO 

Happy Birthday Mr Erwitt, Master Photographer"