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How to Sell the Joke; Two photography shows make the humor pop.
Byline: Jennie Yabroff
In a happy accident of geography, two shows in midtown Manhattan present work by three of the most iconic street photographers of the past century. Many photos are familiar, but considered as a group, the pictures appear fresh--and remarkably funny. The comedy is inherent in Elliott Erwitt's photographs at the Edwynn Houk Gallery (through Feb. 23); around the corner at Laurence Miller Gallery, the humor becomes apparent mainly in the juxtaposition of the works by Diane Arbus and Helen Levitt (through March 10).
Levitt, who photographed New York street scenes in the 1930s and ' 40s, predated Arbus by a generation, yet anticipated many of Arbus's obsessions: children, couples, family life and solitude. The exhibit pairs 20 black-and-white Arbus images with similar-ly themed shots by Levitt. While Arbus is known for chronicling humanity at its most undefended, Levitt's gaze is tender, leavening the impact of Arbus's work. One of Arbus's best-known pictures, a 1970 shot of a dwarf wearing a fedora and towel, is paired with Levitt's 1959 picture of a diapered baby with drawn-on eyebrows and mustache. In the context ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, How to Sell the Joke; Two photography shows make the humor pop.