Filling the role of Man’s Best Friend below are some featured pups being embraced, ogled, petted, held, hugged, and loved by their owners.
Dogs with style:
Chim (David Seymour), [Peggy Guggenheim on the Grand Canal, Venice], 1950 (354.1982)
Dogs with musical talent:
Elliott Erwitt, Amsterdam, 1972 (2007.4.32)
Dogs in all shapes and sizes:
Edwin Rosskam, Oil Town Children, Wyoming, 1944 (121.1983)
Dogs can be regal:
Robert Capa, [Adolphe Max, burgomater (mayor) of the city for thirty years, with his dog Happy, Brussels], 1939 (2516.1992)
Dogs are beautiful, too:
Garry Winogrand, from the series Women are Beautiful, 1975 (248.1984)
Fans in a Flashbulb 