On display at the Bisazza Foundation from March 13 to June 7, 2020, is the “Norman Parkinson & Fashion Photography 1948 – 1968” photo exhibition.
A retrospective, it retraces 20 years of fashion photography through the gaze of Norman Parkinson along with four other internationally recognized and celebrated photographers: Milton Greene, Terence Donovan, Terry O’Neill and Jerry Schatzberg.
Curated by Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz and organised by the Bisazza Foundation together
with Iconic Images – one of the world’s leading fine art photography archive management companies – the show is divided into seven themes: Glamour, Swinging Sixties, City Style, The Art of Travel, Postwar Couture, Exceptional Gowns and Iconic – for a total of 70 works. Epochal images that not only narrate the spirit of change sweeping the times (1948-1968) but, above all, reveal a new style of photography and way of representing women, especially in fashion shoots and portraits.
Boldly outside the box, Norman Parkinson takes a visionary approach to photographing models, removing them from the typical photo studio setting and taking them out into the streets, on beaches, to real, yet incredibly exotic and breathtaking, locations. Parkinson manages to capture and fully do justice to the concept of feminine elegance in each strikingly poetic shot.
Terence Donovan and O’Neill, both English, captured as few the magic of the 60’s swinging London, Milton Greene and Jerry Schatzberg, were both American and film directors and photographers. Greene was the fashion and celebrity photographer known best for his photo shoots with Marilyn and Jerry Schatzberg, a great filmmaker on his own captured some of the most iconic and intimate portraits of his generation always characterised by their narrative quality and emotion.
Photographed against New York’s high-rise skyline or with the monuments of London or Paris in the background, the female subjects take the starring role throughout the entire exhibit, which features, among celebrities from the world of music and entertainment: Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Always in motion and portrayed in different attitudes from everyday life, the subjects express a dynamism and a spontaneity so natural, they lead the observer to identify with the moment itself, drawn into an engaging experience.
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