(Paris, 26 July 1928-29 November 2023)
Elliot Erwitt was an American photographer. He has worked for the most important press media. His artistic quality and his great communicational impact have placed him in a privileged place among the photographers of the twentieth century.
The son of Jewish immigrants from Russia, he spent his childhood in Italy and France, but World War II forced his family to emigrate to the United States.
Elliott Erwitt began taking photographs in the late 1940s. His beginnings were in a photographic studio in Hollywood and later as a photographer for various publications. On one of his travels he met Robert Capa, Edward Steichen and Roy Stryker, who became his prominent mentors.
In 1953 he was invited to join the prestigious agency Magnum Photos by Robert Capa, one of its founders, becoming, fifteen years later, the president of it.
In the 1960s, he began making documentaries, television programmes and books. To date, Erwitt has authored 18 monographs and continues to work on new titles.
His camera has photographed many of the protagonists of contemporary history, such as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ernesto Che Guevara, Nikita Khrushchev, Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, among others.
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