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.

The Man and the Mouse

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Walt Disney with the silhouette of Mickey Mouse, the quintessential American cultural icon he created. Conceived as a […]

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.