Kitchen Debate by Elliott Erwitt | Contact Sheets

A kitchen of a suburban model house — cut in half to be viewed easily — was an unlikely place to make history, but on July 24th 1959, vice-president Richard Nixon and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev did just that.

de Gaulle in USSR

In July 1966, De Gaulle made an 11-day, 6,200 mile trip across Russia. Elliot Erwitt was the only American photographer covering de Gaulle’s visit.

The Duel in Moscow, 1959

A kitchen of a suburban model house — cut in half to be viewed easily — was an unlikely place to make history, but on July 24th 1959, vice-president Richard Nixon and the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev did just that.