Magnum Poster: Provence. France, 1955 Famous Faces

Magnum Poster: Provence. France, 1955 Famous FacesElliott Erwitt was born in Paris to Russian parents. Despite moving to the US at a young age, where he would discover and develop his passion for photography, Erwitt has often returned to France to take pictures, producing some of his most familiar work there. With a keen eye for the real France, Erwitt photographs the country with a humanistic flair. Alternating intimate details with grand vistas, he succeeds in capturing the true spirit of France,

of two young cousins

” where one-third of the population lives in poverty — he knew what his next project had to be

He made this series of images near the Brandenburg Gate

the text has since been debunked as a forgery by scientific consensus

” wrote Bruno Barbey of his time shooting the Paris riots

1968 to watch his funeral train travel slowly from New York to Washington

working in commercial darkrooms

that at home in the US

his fascination has finally found fruition

even if the backdrop to all the colour-saturated human activity is the most monochrome of natural landscapes

was complementary to his low key personality

Bendiksen travelled there neither as a correspondent nor as a holiday-goer