Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928 Paris, American) spent his formative years in Europe before moving to the United States, where he would meet his mentors: the prominent photographers Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker. His extensive travels contributed to a distinguished style that captured life’s absurdities with humane candor and shaped the golden period of editorial photography and magazines such as Collier’s, Holiday, Look, and LIFE. Outside his commercial career, Erwitt created personal black- and-white work that reflects his love of family life and, in particular, children and pets.
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