Magnum Poster: Wyoming, 1954 Framing:Custom White Frame

Magnum Poster: Wyoming, 1954 Framing:Custom White FrameElliott Erwitt has spent a lifetime documenting the United States and his work now stands as a testament to what it means to be American. From grandstanding politicians and celebrity culture to cinematic vistas, Erwitts vision of the nation manages to be both unique in perspective and universal in influence. Here, he captures the spectacularly panoramic landscape of Wyoming, through a car rear window.

allowing him to capture striking images that were deeply human without being sentimental

when the mountain rises out of the surrounding industrial landscape

By the mid-20th century

provincial photographer Marc Riboud climbed the Eiffel Tower’s old spiral staircase with a Leica slung across his shoulder to photograph Zazou

There he took photographs for the British army

Erwitt photographs the country with a humanistic flair

and his insistence that the government is answerable to all – black and white

Alec Soth turned his eye to another iconic body of water

and is hand stamped on the back with a Magnum Photos Collection stamp for authentication

which quickly led him to become the favored photographer of many celebrities

as they play

Fairmount High