作者简历：
Elliott Erwitt
1928: Born July 26 in Paris of Russian Parents from Moscow and Odessa.
1928-38: Brought up in Milan, Italy.
1938-39: He is in Paris.
1939: Worried by the onrush of fascism, his parents move to New York.
1942-44: Studies at the Hollywood High School. Fascinated by photography.
1944: First photographs, produces many prints of personalities and also makes passport photos.
1945-47: Studies at Los Angeles College.
1947: Becomes an American Citizen.
1947-48: Works in a drugstore and assists in a film-developing lab, Los Angeles.
1948-49: Studies filming at the New School for Social Research, New York.
1949: Cameraman in France. Sets up a studio in Paris.
1950: New York: meets Steichen, Robert Capa. Assistant in the Studio of Valentino Sarra.
1950-52: Staff photographer, Standard Oil Co., New Jersey and Pittsburgh Photo Library, with Roy Stryker.
1951: Military service as an assistant photographer in the US Army Signal Corps in Germany and in France.
1955: Freelance photographer in New York, works in fashion and advertising for Collier's, Look, Life,
Holiday...Air France, KLM and Revlon.
* Photo reporting in the USA and Europe for the Magnum Agency.
1956: Photo reports in Egypt. Takes shots of architecture and works on documentary films.
1958: Associate member of the cooperative Magnum Photos in NY and Paris.
1959: He is in Moscow for the American Industrial Exhibition. Photographs Krushcev and Nixon.
1966: President of Magnum in NY.
1969: Photographs Puerto Rico.
1970: Produces short films, one on Dustin Hoffman, the other on Arthur Penn during the making of Little
Big Man. Photographs many examples of architecture in the US.
1972: Publishes his first book.
1973: American Film Institute Grant
* Director of the film Beauty Knows No Pain. He works on other films including Red, White and Bluegrass,
Beautiful, Baby, Beautiful...
1976: Receives the National Endowment for the Arts.
1978: Publishes <>. His photographs are with Magnum in NY, Museum of Modern Art,
NY, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, Kunsthaus in Zurich, Bibliothe`que Nationalein Paris and the
Art Institute of Chicago.
