Elliott Erwitt

Elliott Erwitt Research

Elliott Erwitt is a documentary and advertising photographer who was born in 1928. He is known for his black and white shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings.



 Erwitt served as a photographer's assistant in the 1950s in the United States Army while stationed in France and Germany. The Director of the Farm Security Administration's photography department, hired Erwitt to work on a photography project for the Standard Oil Company. Erwitt then began a freelance photographer career and produced work for magazines. He offes some very fuunny ideas into human behavour. Such as this photo. All the en are looking at the naked woman in the painting but the one woman is on her own looking at the other pianting of the dressed woman.

 I like Elliott Erwitt because he takes photos of people and they don't know he's there and so we get an insight into what they are really like. There is no posing for the camera or changing their expression because they don't know he's taking a photo. We can see what people are really like.