Photographers
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Elliott Erwitt 엘리엇 얼윗 (1928 -) France
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Elliot Erwit
"It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy."
Born in Paris to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, Italy, then emigrated to the US via France with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948, he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951, he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in an Army Signal Corps unit in Germany and France.
Before the U.S. Army got him and while in New York, Erwitt had met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company. He subsequently hired Erwitt to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
In 1953, Erwitt joined Magnum Photos and worked as a freelance photographer for "Collier's", "Look", "Life", "Holiday" and other luminaries in that golden period for illustrated magazines. To this day he is for hire and continues to work for a variety of journalistic and commercial outfits.
USA. New York City. 1953.
USA. New York City. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1988.
USA. New York. East Hampton. 1983.
JAPAN. Kyoto. 1977.
USA. Florida Keys. 1968.
Havana. Che GUEVARA. 1964.
RUSSIA. Moscow. Nikita KHRUSHCHEV and Richard NIXON.
USA. NYC. 1946.
USA. California. 1955.
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