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PHOTOGRAPHER

Elliott Erwitt

1928 - 2023

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Elliott Erwitt (born Elio Romano Erwitz, July 26, 1928 – November 29, 2023) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elliott Erwitt has received more than 406,357 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Elliott Erwitt is the 25th most popular photographer (down from 21st in 2019), the 1,671st most popular biography from France (down from 1,478th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 410k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Elliott Erwitt ranks 25 out of 105. Before him are Wilhelm von Gloeden, André Kertész, Gunter Sachs, Josef Koudelka, Richard Avedon, and August Sander. After him are Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Fenton, Peter Lindbergh, Irving Penn, Lewis Hine, and Philippe Halsman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Elliott Erwitt ranks 113. Before him are John Stewart Bell, Djivan Gasparyan, Michel Serrault, Takeshi Inoue, Ida Haendel, and Alfonso de Portago. After him are Roddy McDowall, Dick York, Gordie Howe, Hayden White, Malcolm Glazer, and Jack Kevorkian. Among people deceased in 2023, Elliott Erwitt ranks 69. Before him are Sixto Rodriguez, Marisa Pavan, Viktor Belenko, Françoise Gilot, Amancio Amaro, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie. After him are Otar Iosseliani, Gianni Vattimo, Mircea Snegur, Milan Milutinović, Burt Bacharach, and David Crosby.

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In France

Among people born in France, Elliott Erwitt ranks 1,671 out of 6,011. Before him are Henri-Edmond Cross (1856), Maria of Montpellier (1182), Nicolas Sanson (1600), Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629), Jean Chapelain (1595), and Berengar of Tours (998). After him are Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756), Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489), Pierre Puget (1620), Raoul Salan (1899), Matilda of Boulogne (1103), and Adhemar of Le Puy (1055).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In France

Among photographers born in France, Elliott Erwitt ranks 6. Before him are Nadar (1820), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), Robert Doisneau (1912), Dora Maar (1907), and Claude Cahun (1894). After him are Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894), Hippolyte Bayard (1801), Sabine Weiss (1924), André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819), Marc Riboud (1923), and Sophie Calle (1953).

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