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ELLIOTT ERWITT:

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From 28 June to 21 September 2025

Palazzo Bonaparte - Generali Value Culture Space

Piazza Venezia, 5, Rome

Closed now: open at 09:00

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From June 28 to September 21, 2025, Palazzo Bonaparte welcomes the most ironic and disarming gaze of 20th-century photography: ELLIOTT ERWITT.
An exhibition that is much more than a show: it is an invitation to observe the world with lightness, empathy, and wonder.

An unmissable event, which tells – through over 80 iconic shots – the long and brilliant career of an artist capable of capturing the soul of the 20th century and transforming ordinary moments into unforgettable images, with a deeply human yet always surprising gaze.

On display in Rome are icons of an era, of a way of looking at the world with lightness and intelligence. "Icons" because every Erwitt shot has become a symbol, of his poetics and of our own collective memory.

Erwitt is not just a photographer: he is the singer of the human comedy, the infallible witness of the small and great absurdities of life, who can tell with disarming irony, subtle poetry, and timeless grace. His images – famous, unforgettable, often dazzling – manage to be both light and profound, intimate and universal. They are shots that make you smile, reflect, and move.

Elliott Erwitt has been – and is – an absolute protagonist of the visual culture of our time. His images, his books, his reportages, illustrations, and advertising campaigns have crossed decades, appearing in international publications and influencing generations of photographers and artists. This exhibition is a journey through his work and at the same time an invitation to look at the world with new eyes: with lightness, empathy, wonder.

A member of the historic Magnum agency since 1953 – founded among others by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa – Erwitt has journalistically recounted the last sixty years of history and contemporary civilization, capturing the most dramatic but also the most amusing aspects of life that have passed in front of his lens.

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Palace of Fears, Lecco

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	09:00 - 19:00
tuesday	09:00 - 19:00
wednesday	09:00 - 19:00
thursday	09:00 - 19:00
friday	09:00 - 21:00
saturday	09:00 - 21:00
sunday	09:00 - 21:00

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