By Robert Kiener
January 2021 issue
Profiles
Elliott Erwitt is freezing.It’s just after six a.m. on Jan. 20, 2009, the morning of Barack Obama’s inauguration, and Erwitt, the 80-year old photographer who’s captured every president since Harry Truman, is on assignment for Newsweek to cover the day’s festivities. He’s arrived early—the inauguration won’t begin until 10 a.m.—to claim a good spot in the press photographers’ gallery. It is a bitterly cold morning, and like many other photographers covering the event, he’s...
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