Elliot Erwitt is an American photographer and writer born in 1928 in Paris.

I will speak about a book Unseen in which we can see many of his photographs. I would like to focus on a few of them.

For example, this work: 

In this photograph, our look is first of all attracted by areas lights: sneakers, the plug of the bottle, the skin and in particular a area important who is the ones of human hair, this haircut is the vanishing point of the picture. The man is in the middle of the picture , he looks comfortable. In addition, the lens positioning we give a effect to "large" of the limousine who amplifed the idea to confort and to the wealth. On the other hand, we can't see any joy an his face, on the contrary, we can see a bored face. This man doesn't seem to engry his wealth at he nor should, he is probably used to being rich. But, as we seeing, he is alone, almost old, without woman or family: The loneliness reigns in this work. It shows the sadness of a man who grows old in luxury.
"The money does not buy happiness"

All photographs to Elliott are overall in black and white, they contains the capacity to guide eye thanks to the light.

Ps: The man in the work is Andy Warhol, did you recognized him ? :p

(the next example, in the next article ;) soon...)