Pitt professor captures pandemic through a camera lens
By Diana Velasquez, Senior Staff Writer
June 2, 2020
Ivette Spradlin’s Instagram page is filled to the brim with images of people in masks posed in front of colorful and creative-looking homes, their gaze fixed on the photographer who takes their picture from at least 6 feet away.
Photographer Elliott Erwitt publishes forgotten Pittsburgh photos
By John Hamilton / Editor-in-Chief
August 21, 2017
Elliott Erwitt left his rented room at the downtown Pittsburgh YMCA in the fall of 1950, cameras in hand. The 22-year-old photographer walked up either Forbes or Fifth Avenue, documenting the people and places of the transitioning city along the way, before arriving at the Pittsburgh Photographic Lib...