Giacobetti – the photographer who brought the pin-up to Paris 🤍 ➡️
founder Larry Flynt. “In Paris,” he says, “a young girl would come to do some photos and I would try to build a fantasy around her. In Chicago, it was all Barbie dolls and makeup artists, hairstylists, et cetera. It wasn’t much fun – the girls looked like they were made of plastic.”Giacobetti was always concerned with portraying a particular kind of intimacy, one that evoked a true connection with his subjects.
His innate ability to use it to frame, highlight and illuminate the skin is exceptional, whether it be in the blazing sunshine on a Bahaman beach, or in the confines of a closed studio. His experimental techniques call to mind early Surrealist photograms; he has often manipulated coloured light sources to magnify the contours of the body, the results of which have served as inspiration for a new generation of photographers.