Elliott Erwitt, who has died aged 95, was one of photography’s great humourists, best known for his pictures of dogs; but he was also a revered photojournalist, capable of high seriousness, for instance when documenting Jackie Kennedy’s grief at her husband’s funeral, and more usually mischief, as when he immortalised the “kitchen debate” between Nixon and Khrushchev in 1959.
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Photographers with a comic outlook on life seldom win the acclaim granted to exalters of nature or chroniclers of war and squalor. Elliott Erwitt was an exception.