4 legged photos

The DOGDOGS exhibition by Elliott Erwitt, open at Palazzo Callas Exhibitions until 13 July 2025, is increasingly winning over the public and critics and continues to be talked about in the national press, this time with two in-depth articles by Fotocult and Corriere della Sera. Eighty black and white shots, taken between 1946 and 2004, portray dogs, subjects much loved by the great American photographer, with humour and mastery.

“Elliott Erwitt loved dogs and he loved photographing them. He said he appreciated the fact that dogs never complained about being photographed and he liked that they never asked him to print the photographs he took.
Thus, during his seventy-year brilliant career, spent photographing everyday life and the most iconic people in the world, Erwitt often and willingly lowered his shooting point to portray his beloved four-legged friends with irony, complicity and new perspectives.

Eighty photographs of dogs, taken by Elliott Erwitt between 1946 and 2004, are on display in the DogDogs exhibition at Palazzo Callas in Sirmione. The exhibition celebrates the sensitivity of a great master of 20th-century photography, who was able to carefully observe the relationship between man and animal and tell it through technically impeccable images, full of humor and always universal. In that relationship Erwitt found a a sort of identification between man and dog and relied on a sophisticated anthropomorphism, aiming more at telling the story of people than of dogs themselves […]”.