Francis Giacobetti - GIACOBETTI - 2017

Francis Giacobetti reinvented not only the nude but the entire artistic process of capturing images in video and photography. From its inception, Giacobetti was the chief photographer of the infamous monthly magazine Lui, working without retouching and under fourteen pseudonyms. Just as this publication is credited with popularizing the pinup in Paris, Giacobetti can be credited with bringing elegance to the world of the nude. Reintroducing fantasy and desire into the genre, into some of the most celebrated years of the Pirelli calendar and into the portraiture of the world's most renowned artists, actors, and models, Giacobetti has created some of the most iconic images in photography over the past fifty years. His self-taught, unconventional approach to technique, light, and shadow has earned him covers across various formats and has elevated the name Giacobetti into the pantheon of photography’s greats. Known for blurring the lines between photography and painting, craft and art, Giacobetti’s series—Zebras, Irises, Hymn, the Bacon portraits—and his innovative processes have puzzled masters of the art and captured the beauty of the human form.
33 x 25 x 4 cm
300 pages