“The Elliott Erwitt. Icons” photo exhibit at Rome’s Palazzo Bonaparte museum, June 27th, 2025

From June 28th, 2025 until September 21st, 2025 Rome’s central Palazzo Bonaparte museum will be hosting the “Elliott Erwitt. Icons” photo exhibit (Napoleon’s mother lived in that palace). 

 
Elliott Erwitt was one of the most important photographers of the 20^th/early 21^st centuries who managed to make people smile, reflect and also be moved through his unique photographic style.  

He was born of Russian immigrants in Paris in 1928 and spent his first years of life in Milan.  Erwitt then moved to Los Angeles and returned to Europe in 1949.  He died in New York in 2023 at the age of 95.  

 
Since 1953 he had been a member of Magnum Photos, which had been founded by some of his admirers, such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson.   

With over 80 photographs on display in Rome folks will see how the American photographer had a unique style: poetic, irreverent and profoundly humane as he knew how to capture the lighter side of the “joie de vivre” philosophy.