Magnum Editions: Florida Keys, USA, 1968 Gift he became the first contract

he became the first contract photographer for The Observer

Bike Week at Daytona Beach and Mardi Gras in New Orleans

he photographed ballerinas at the Bolshoi Ballet School (today

all the compositional and conceptual elements are in place

Magnum Editions: Florida Keys, USA, 1968 Gift he became the first contractBorn in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, before emigrating to the US with his family in 1939, where he would spend his teenage years in Hollywood. It was here, working in commercial darkrooms, that he discovered a passion and an innate skill for photography. One of the cooperatives most illustrious members, Erwitt is known for a benevolent irony and a humanistic sensibility traditional to the spirit of Magnum: You