Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

On the Beach 1991. Photography career
Born in Paris of Jewish-Russian immigrant parents Erwitt served as a photographer's assistant in the 1950s in the United States Army while stationed in France and Germany. Elliott Erwitt's Handbook 2002.

Elliott Erwitt (b. 26 July 1928 Paris France) is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings— a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment".