Born on July 26, 1928, in Paris, Elliott Erwitt immigrated to New York in 1948. A member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency since 1953 and one of the leading figures in the competitive field of magazine photography, Erwitt has also published multiple books and has had one-man exhibitions in numerous museums and galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, Paris' Museum of Modern Art, and Zurich's Kunsthaus. Based in New York City, Elliott Erwitt travels obsessively. He likes children and dogs.
