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.
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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.
At Capote’s Ball
Truman Capote’s legendary masked ball, at New York City’s Plaza Hotel on November 28, 1966, […]
The 40th anniversary of the Russian revolution
Born in Paris to Russian parents, and educated in America, Elliott Erwitt took up photography […]
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.