مسيرة المصور الفرنسي الامريكي: Elliott Erwitt .تقديم المصور المصري:أشرف طلعت

مسيرة المصور الفرنسي الامريكي: Elliott Erwitt .تقديم المصور المصري:أشرف طلعت

مسيرة المصور الفرنسي الامريكي: Elliott Erwitt .تقديم المصور المصري:أشرف طلعت

مسيرة المصور الألماني: Elliott Erwitt .تقديم المصور المصري:أشرف طلعت


Elliott Erwitt
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Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitz, July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023)^[1] was a French-born American advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid photos of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings. He was a member of Magnum Photos from 1953. Early life

مسيرة المصور الفرنسي الامريكي: Elliott Erwitt .تقديم المصور المصري:أشرف طلعت

Early lifeedit

Erwitt was born in Paris, France on July 26, 1928, to Jewish-Russian immigrant parents, Eugenia and Boris Erwitz, who soon moved to Italy.^[2][3] In 1939, when he was ten, his family migrated to the United States. He studied photography and filmmaking at Los Angeles City College and the New School for Social Research, finishing his education in 1950. In 1951 he was drafted into the Army, and discharged in 1953.
Photography careeredit

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Erwitt served as a photographer's assistant in the 1950s in the United States Army while stationed in France and Germany. He was influenced by meeting the famous photographers Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker. Stryker, the former Director of the Farm Security Administration's photography department, hired Erwitt to work on a photography project for the Standard Oil Company. He then began a freelance photographer career and produced work for Collier's, Look, Life and Holiday. Erwitt was invited to become a member of Magnum Photos by the founder Robert Capa.^[4]

Again and again he has also documented socio-political events in his photographs, such as Richard Nixon's visit to the Soviet Union in 1959,^[5] the funeral service for John F. Kennedy in 1963^[6] or the inauguration of Barack Obama in 2009.^[7]

One of the subjects Erwitt has frequently photographed in his career is dogs: they have been the subject of five of his books, Son of Bitch (1974), To the Dogs (1992), Dog Dogs (1998), Woof (2005), and Elliott Erwitt's Dogs (2008).^[8]

Erwitt created an alter ego, the beret-wearing and pretentious "André S. Solidor" (which abbreviates to "ass") — "a contemporary artist, from one of the French colonies in the Caribbean, I forget which one" — to "satirise the kooky excesses of contemporary photography." His work was published in a book, The Art of André S. Solidor (2009), and exhibited in 2011 at the Paul Smith Gallery in London.^[8][9]

Erwitt was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal in 2002 in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography,^[10] a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship in 1996^[11] and the International Center for Photography's Infinity Award, Lifetime Achievement category, in 2011.^[12]
Filmmaking career

Filmmaking career


From the 1970s, he devoted much of his energy toward movies. His feature films, television commercials, and documentary films included Arthur Penn: the Director (1970), Beauty Knows No Pain (1971), Red, White and Bluegrass (1973) and the prize-winning^{[clarification needed]} Glassmakers of Herat, Afghanistan (1977). He was, as well, credited as camera operator for Gimme Shelter (1970), still photographer for Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (2005), and provided addition photography for Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (2009).

A collection of Erwitt's films were screened in 2011 as part of the DocNYC Festival's special event "An Evening with Elliott Erwitt".
Philanthropyedit

In October 2020, Erwitt partnered with the digital collectible cards company Phil Ropy and created a card to raise awareness for Project HOPE's COVID-19 response. The picture on the card shows a pair of medical rubber gloves as a reminder of how exposed health care workers are and as an allusion to Project HOPE's logo.^[13] The proceeds from the sales of the card are redistributed to the organization.^[14][15]
Deathedit

Erwitt died at his home in New York on November 29, 2023, aged 95.^[1]
Publications

Philanthropyedit

In October 2020, Erwitt partnered with the digital collectible cards company Phil Ropy and created a card to raise awareness for Project HOPE's COVID-19 response. The picture on the card shows a pair of medical rubber gloves as a reminder of how exposed health care workers are and as an allusion to Project HOPE's logo.^[13] The proceeds from the sales of the card are redistributed to the organization.^[14][15]
Deathedit

Erwitt died at his home in New York on November 29, 2023, aged 95.^[1]
Publications

Exhibitionsedit

• Roma. Fotografie di Elliott Erwitt, Museo di Roma, Rome, November 2009 – January 2010^[16]
• Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, International Center of Photography, New York, May–August 2011^[17]
• Elliott Erwitt, Black & White and Kolor, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, 2011^[18]
• Elliott Erwitt: Home Around The World, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016–2017^[19]
• Elliott Erwitt: Pittsburgh 1950, International Center of Photography, New York, 2018^[20]
• Elliott Erwitt: A retrospective, Musée Maillol, Paris, 2023^[21]