Marilyn Monroe, New York, 1956 Elliott Erwitt Snaps

Each "Collector's Edition" comprises a special edition of a Phaidon book thats cloth bound and presented in a cloth bound box with an original print,ade, signed and numbered by the artist or photographer. Six different imagesrom Elliott Erwitt are available: "Paris, 1989"; "Valencia, Spain, 1952"; "rovence, France, 1955"; "Fifth Avenue, New York, 1947"; "Marylin Monroe, Nework, 1956"; and "New York, 1986".;Elliott Erwitt, a leading photographer ofis generation and a member of the prestigious Magnum Agency, has been takinghotographs all over the world since the late 1940s. "Snaps" is the mostomplete collection of Erwitt's work, packed with amusing, moving, intensend beautiful images in Erwitt's unmistakable style. It captures the famousnd the ordinary, the strange and the mundane, over more than half a century,hrough the lens of one of the period's finest image makers.

One of the greatest image makers of his generation, Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) describes himself as 'a professional photographer by trade and an amateur photographer by vocation.' A member of Magnum since 1954, his camera has taken him all over the globe and his pictures have been the subject of many books and exhibitions worldwide. Artist and documenter, his work spans many traditions, subjects and approaches to photography.