studium/punctum-kirslyn

I chose this Elliott Erwitt image because I really love this photograph, and it is one of the few photographs that makes me wonder what the story behind it is. I want to know everything, who is in the photograph, where they are in California, what are the circumstances, how Erwitt got this shot, where he was in relation to them, if he knew them, etc. This image is somewhat iconic, I think, in a way other than the fact that it is recognizable. It's not very disturbing or startling, which are usually the tupes of qualities I look for in photographs, but it just IS and that's why I think it works.