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Brasilia, Brazil, 1961.© Elliott Erwitt—Magnum by [Phil Bicker](https://time.com/author/phil-bicker/) ## Phil Bicker Oct 18, 2011 8:00 AM UTC [Elliott Erwitt](http://www.elliotterwitt.com/) generally likes to let his pictures do the talking. “I’m very bad about talking about things,” he tells me with a smile, during a recent sit-down to look through his latest book, _Sequentially Yours_, published this month by teNeues. The book playfully presents a series of unscripted vignettes that bear the personal hallmark and humor of his classic images and movies, but with an original twist— rather than single shots, the photos are shown as sequences. The result is somewhere between single exposures and films, and the stories play out like silent movies—touching, funny, sad, irreverent and full of surprise. Erwitt uses his film sparingly; he’s the first to acknowledge that he does not take as many frames as most photographers when he shoots. “The process is sometimes more interesting than the finished picture,” he says. And it’s that thought that served as the impetus for _Sequentially Yours_. Looking through his archive, Erwitt decided it made more sense to show sequenced images— as opposed to a single shot a la Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment.” “You always look for the best picture, but sometimes the pictures are not that great alone. But in a group, they become interesting,” Erwitt says, citing the series of people trying to close an umbrella on a windy day. “None of these are a picture on their own, but as a sequence of 32, it’s hilarious—not being able to close the umbrella and going home with it open.” The book’s layout mimics Erwitt’s photographs in style—classic and effortless—and each of the vignettes has different constructs and different outcomes—often open to interpretation—that surprise and entertain. There are iconic images of Erwitt’s that you would expect to be the final statement in a particular sequence that actually appear in the middle of a story, proving that the iconic image can come at different points in the process and that Erwitt continues to shoot with a natural curiosity beyond the point where other photographers might stop after they’ve gotten the picture. In a photo series of an old man and his dog, Erwitt says “the picture is of course the man talking to the dog—having had his discussion, he goes on his way.” In another series, which takes place at a graveyard, he says, “You really don’t know what is going to happen—it starts with a woman going to a cemetery to deposit some flowers and a dog follows her.” The last picture shows the dog rolling on the ground—and could stand on its own as the picture—but it is made more interesting by those that precede it. But even as the punch line, this image is still open ended. Is the dog playing dead or simply being playful? These sequences reveal how Erwitt shoots, and he clearly has a relaxed approach and patience. “It’s like fishing. Sometimes you catch one. You lay in wait for something to happen— sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t,” the photographer says of his process. Along with the stories, there are Erwitt’s iconic photographs of public figures. The familiar images give further context by the frames which were taken immediately before or after. A group portrait taken on the set of the _The Misfits_ movie reveals the chemistry of the cast in the build up to the final image. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev are shown as a dyptich, and a series of Che Guevara portraits are simply four pictures taken from a single photo shoot. In a Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight sequence, the subtlety is almost lost in the magnitude of the moment. Erwitt’s explanation of this unique series is almost as surprising as Ali being knocked to the canvas. While the accredited photographers shot handheld directly at ringside, Erwitt shot from the audience a distance away, with the camera on a tripod, so you can see that all three pictures are taken from the identical position. And while most of the image sets are taken in a concentrated time frame, there are a couple of notable exceptions. Two photos of Erwitt’s first daughter—one in which she is pregnant and the other three months later with her baby—and a series which ends the book, showing Erwitt’s personal agenda covers adorned with photographs of his two daughters taken over a thirty year period. Erwitt has published nearly 40 books, but _Sequentially Yours_ provides a perfect, original and refreshing context for his intuitive and instinctive images. His playful humor and wit are as sharp as ever. Here, Erwitt gives you a sense of what happens next, the end point being sometimes comic, sometimes poignant and often with a wink. Sequentially Yours _was published this month by_ [_teNeues_](http://www.teneues.com/shop-us/books/photography/sequentially-yours.html)_. Erwitt will participate in a_ [_book signing_](http://www.icp.org/events/2011/november/04/book-signing-elliott-erwitts-sequentially-yours) _at the International Center of Photography in New York on Nov. 4._  Brasilia, Brazil, 1961. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Brasilia, Brazil, 1961. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Neuilly, Paris, France, 1952. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Neuilly, Paris, France, 1952. ©Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Neuilly, Paris, France, 1952. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon, Moscow, USSR, 1959. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Trouville, France, 1965. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Trouville, France, 1965. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Trouville, France, 1965. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Film set of The Misfits, Reno, Nevada, USA, 1960. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Film set of The Misfits, Reno, Nevada, USA, 1960. ©Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Film set of The Misfits, Reno, Nevada, USA, 1960. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, New York City, USA, 1971. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, New York City, USA, 1971. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, New York City, USA, 1971. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Saint-Tropez, France, 1979. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Saint-Tropez, France, 1979. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Saint-Tropez, France, 1979. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum  Amy and Sasha, New York City, East Hampton, Mexico and Paris, 1977-2007. © Elliott Erwitt—Magnum ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3781974/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3781974/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/"},"headline":"Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours","datePublished":"2011-10-18T08:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:41:21.043Z","description":"The photographer speaks exclusively to TIME about his new book, which presents a series of vignettes that play out like silent movies—touching, funny, sad, irreverent and full of surprise.","url":"https://time.com/3781974/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/","keywords":["LightBox","Books","Humor","Out There","nixon","Magnum","black and white photography","Muhammad Ali"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a4947b3e704d8a1/698799f48e060175ab45baf0/01_brazil-brasilia-1961.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Phil Bicker","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/phil-bicker/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a4947b3e704d8a1/698799f48e060175ab45baf0/01_brazil-brasilia-1961.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elliott Erwitt","caption":"Brasilia, Brazil, 1961.","creditText":"© Elliott Erwitt—Magnum","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3781974/elliott-erwitt-sequentially-yours/","name":"Elliott Erwitt: Sequentially Yours"}}]}] ```