Elliott Erwitt: The photographer who got the best out of Castro, Kerouac, and Monroe — independent.co.uk

"His images look easy," says Astrid Merget Motsenigos, creative director of the World Photography Organisation. "But he is the only one who captures people in exactly the right moment." Take his shot of Richard Nixon prodding the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in the chest as they toured the model American kitchen at the 1959 National American Exhibition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War. It symbolised Nixon's pugilistic bearing for the rest of his career. Then there is Jacqueline Kennedy's grief-stricken face, emphasised through her sheer black veil as her husband is about to be buried. "I captured many moments but I chose this one as it was the most evocative. It was the saddest occasion I've ever been to," Erwitt says.

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