Elliott Erwitt

Known for

Directing

Born

July 26, 1928

Birthplace

Paris, France

Died

November 29, 2023 (aged 95)

Biography

Elliott Erwitt 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.

Best known work

Everybody Street

2013

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye

2003

Beauty Knows No Pain

1972

Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum

2017

Ain't Misbehavin

2013

Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good

2019

Making 'The Misfits'

2002

Arthur Penn: The Director

1970

Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs

2012

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

1986

Filmography

2019
Elliott Erwitt - Silence Sounds Good
as Himself
2017
Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
as Interviewee
2013
Ain't Misbehavin
as Self
2013
Everybody Street
as Self
2012
Elliott Erwitt: I Bark at Dogs
as Self
2011
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
as self
2006
Marilyn Monroe: Still Life
as Self - Photographer
2003
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye
as Self
2002
Making 'The Misfits'
as Self - Photographer
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
as Self
1983
Good Nudes
Director
1972
Beauty Knows No Pain
Director
1970
The Many Faces of Dustin Hoffman
Director, Director of Photography
1970
Arthur Penn: The Director
Director, Writer, Producer, Cinematography
1963
Red, White and Bluegrass
Director