>>4081006>Elliott Erwitt (Elio Romano Erwitz) was born in Paris in 1928 to Russian immigrants. Some days before the start of the Second World War, his family escaped to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. When Erwitt decided to become a photographer he also took the decision to move to New York. After a year in the army, he began to work as a freelance photographer and in 1954 he became a full member of the legendary photojournalist cooperative Magnum. In 1955 he was one of the photographers in the famous The Family of Man exhibition.https://www.fotografiska.com/sto/en/utstallningar/elliott-erwitt/Like rats leaving a sinking ship lmfao