Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best

The bestselling collection of iconic black-and-white photographs by legendary New York photographer Elliott Erwitt returns in a practical softcover edition. Spanning decades and continents, his spontaneous yet masterful images have shaped visual history and remain instantly recognizable.

Curated by Erwitt himself, Personal Best showcases his most celebrated works—witty, thought-provoking, and deeply human. This reissued classic, part of teNeues' 40th-anniversary series, is a must-have for photography lovers and collectors alike.

Elliott Erwitt, who was born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, came to the U.S. in the late 1930s. After establishing himself as a magazine photographer over the next decade and a half, he joined the renowned Magnum photo agency in 1953. In addition to his work for magazines, he also had great success as an advertising photographer. Elliott Erwitt died at the end of November 2023 at the age of 95.