Artist: Elliott Erwitt
Born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his
childhood in Milan, 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.
Along the way, he met Robert Capa, Edward Steichen and Roy
Stryker, who became his prominent mentors.
In 1953 he was invited to join the prestigious Magnum Photos
agency by Robert Capa, one of its founders, becoming, fifteen years later, its
president.
In the 1960s, he began making documentaries, television
shows, and books. To date, Erwitt has authored eighteen 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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I can't believe Elliot took one of the most historic photos
of Marilyn Monroe's career
Artist research should be more about your thoughts on the artwork, in this case photos, created by the artist - not a copy of biography information from the internet. You have one image included here, but you haven't discussed Erwitt's work here, and it would be better to see more than one of his works included. You must add referencing for the research.
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