Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA, Elliott Erwitt

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Elliott Erwitt, Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA
Elliott Erwitt, Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA
Elliott Erwitt
Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA
1976
Elliott Erwitt
1928–2023
Bearded Man with Tree, Venice, CA, 1976
Portfolio/Series title: Recent Developments
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 29.7 x 20.1 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 11/16 x 7 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of Mr. Albert B. Cohen
Accession number: 1981.0158
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture," Mar-2009, Steve Goddard The palm seen here is a Mexican Fan Palm (Washingtonia Robusta), a variety planted along the boardwalk in Venice Beach, California. Erwitt, who is a master of ironic photographs of dogs and people, suggests in Bearded Man with Tree at least a superficial kinship between humans and the life forms with which they surround themselves. The recently (1990) proposed “three-domain system” organizes the evolutionary tree of life into three kingdoms on the basis of genetic similarities and the sophistication of cellular structure. This phylogenetic tree of life is summarized below, with “bearded man” and “tree” sitting in for “animals” and “plants.”