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Authors, works and languages of the image
Elliott Erwitt
New York City, USA. 2000

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Introduction
Through this image, Erwitt encodes a sublime optical illusion, a "visual contradiction" that transforms a mundane urban scene in Manhattan's Upper West Side into a surrealist tableau of extraordinary evocative power.
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