As a child of Russian immigrants Elliott Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, until the family returned to Paris entertaining and emigrated to the United States in 1939. Erwitt spent a long time working in a photographic lab before beginning to take pictures and experiment at Los Angeles City College.
The young teenager moved to the cosmopolitan city of New York in 1948. There he met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, who inspired him significantly in the aftermath. After traveling through France and Italy with his Rolleiflex for some time and returning to New York, he began to work professionally as a photographer.
In 1951 he was drafted into the army, but was not deterred from photographing. After he was released two years later, Capa offered him a place in the photo agency Magnum.
Since then, he is a member and already exercised the presidency. Erwitt worked as a freelance photographer for magazines like Collier's, Look and Life and is still active today. In addition to his photographic work, he is ambitious in the field of documentary.
In addition to numerous publications and journalistic essays, he exhibits his photographs in many museums and galleries, among other things at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Erwitt's works include immortal photographs of the 20th century. He is known for his humoristic and ironic motives, which he always photographs according to the tradition of Magnum Photos.
