"Elliott Erwitt was born to Russian parents in Paris, France. He immigrated to America with his family in 1939. Erwitt studied photography at Los Angeles City College. Erwitt served as an assistant photographer in the United States Army Signal Corps in Germany and France. He also worked as a freelance photographer for advertising agencies. He first received popular recognition and fame beca...see more »use of a photograph that came to be known as "The Kitchen Debate." This now famous photograph showed Nikita Khruschev and Richard Nixon arguing in front of an American refrigerator at a Moscow industrial exhibition. During his long career, Erwitt has photographed journalistic essays, been on commercial assignments throughout the world, and created photographic art that appears in many private and public collections. Some of Erwitt's photographs are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "« see less
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