Milan, at the Diocesan Museum the 100 photographs of Elliott Erwitt

The Diocesan Museum in Milan is hosting the exhibition ELLIOTT ERWITT 100 Photographs until Oct. 16: The exhibition celebrates Elliott Erwitt (Paris, 1928), one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, through a selection of 100 black-and-white and color shots, from ironic and surreal to romantic ones, from portraits of celebrities and children to images of travel and metropolis. The exhibition traces the entire career of the American author and offers an insight into the history and customs of the 20th century, through his typical irony pervaded by a surreal and romantic vein, which identified him as the photographer of human comedy.

Erwitt’s lens has often captured moments and situations that have become inscribed in the collective imagination as true icons; such is the case with the shot with Nixon and Khrushchev in Moscow in 1959, so effective that the U.S. president’s staff appropriated it to make it a weapon in his election campaign, the tragic and poignant image of Jackie Kennedy in tears behind a black veil during her husband’s funeral, or a young Arnold Schwarzenegger as a bodybuilder during a performance at the Whitney Museum in New York.

A great portraitist, Erwitt has immortalized numerous personalities who have shaped the history of the 20th century, from the fathers of the Cuban revolution, Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, in a rare smiling expression, to the American presidents he has photographed from the 1950s to the present. In this gallery of personalities, a special corner is reserved for Marilyn Monroe, perhaps the most photographed movie star of all time, captured both in private, intimate moments and during breaks on film sets.

One of the recurring themes in Erwitt’s career is that of the children he loved and with whom he always had a special relationship. These are calming images in which the little ones are caught in their joy, such as the little girl in Puerto Rico or the Irish kids photographed for a tourist promotion campaign. These shots are flanked by those devoted to animals, particularly dogs, taken in poses that are most often funny or that evoke an anthropomorphic attitude of imitation of humans.

The exhibition also includes images that reveal Erwitt’s romantic spirit and show couples in love exchanging tender moments. A great traveler, finally, Elliott Erwitt documented the societies and events of ordinary people in the countries he visited as a photojournalist, from France to Spain,Italy to Poland, Japan to Russia, and the many glimpses of life in American metropolises.

The exhibition is organized by the Diocesan Museum in collaboration with SudEst57, under the patronage of the City of Milan, sponsor Credit Agricole.

For all information, you can visit the official website of the Chiostri di Sant’Eustorgio.

Milan, at the Diocesan Museum the 100 photographs of Elliott Erwitt

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