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How to Sell the Joke; Two photography shows make the humor pop.
Newsweek International, February, 2007 by Yabroff, Jennie
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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 ...
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