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Elliott Erwitt


Born
in Paris, France
July 26, 1928

Died
November 29, 2023

Genre
Arts & Photography


Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitz) is an advertising and journalistic photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings -- the master of the "indecisive moment". ...more

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Average rating: 4.37 · 1,297 ratings · 121 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors
Dog Dogs
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4.45 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1998 — 16 editions
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Elliott Erwitt: Snaps
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4.66 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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Personal Best
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4.67 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions
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Woof
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Elliott Erwitt
4.52 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2007 — 13 editions
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Personal Exposures
4.50 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions
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Elliott Erwitt's Paris
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4.55 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Elliott Erwitt; Museum Watc...
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Found, Not Lost
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Sequentially Yours
4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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“The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.”
― Elliott Erwitt
tags: eastman-kodak, photography, the-joy-of-photographing-people
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“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
― Elliott Erwitt
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“To me, photography is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
― Elliot Erwitt
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