Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt was born from Russian par­ents in 1928 in Paris. He migrated to the United States at the age of 11 and stud­ied pho­tog­ra­phy at Los Angeles City College.

Edward Steichen, the direc­tor of the pho­tog­ra­phy depart­ment of Moma in New York (1950), but also Robert Capa who launched the Magnum agency, and Roy Stryker direc­tor of the FSA project were some of those who applauded Erwitt’s work.

Recommended by the famous pho­tog­ra­pher Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt joined the Magnum Photos team in 1953 aged 25, and will be its pres­i­dent for three con­sec­u­tive years from 1968.

He was very active in many fields out­side of pho­tog­ra­phy, pro­duc­ing movies in the 70s and TV shows in the 80s.

A very dis­creet and tac­i­turn char­ac­ter, this man does not talk much but his pho­to­graphic work, whether jour­nal­is­tic essays or pub­lic­ity pho­tog­ra­phy, is always full of humor and human­ity. Many of his mas­ter­pieces showed us dogs or chil­dren, Erwitt’s favorite subjects.

While Robert Capa and most of the orig­i­nal mem­bers who made Magnum the most famous agency in the world have passed away, Erwitt is today one of Magnum’s most impor­tant photographers.

Major exhi­bi­tions of his pho­tographs have been shown at Moma (NYC), The Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian (Washington DC), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Barbican Art Gallery (London), as well as other major muse­ums around the world.

To date, more than 30 books bring­ing together the work of Elliott Erwitt have been pub­lished includ­ing Between the Sexes and Museum Watching, or more recently, Personal Best, Unseen, New York, Dogs and Regarding Women.

It would not be an exag­ger­a­tion to say that Elliott Erwitt has been a cen­tral fig­ure in the world of pho­tog­ra­phy since the 1940s .

More artworks on request.