The top models Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and Tatjana Patitz as you have never seen them in the shots by photographer Marco Glaviano on display in Costa Smeralda (Italian article translated into English)

Published by ELLE Magazine
07 July 2014

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Marco Glaviano Tatjana Patitz (St Barth), 1997

The photographer Marco Glaviano inaugurates the "Jazz & Model" exhibition at Poltu Quatu Art in Costa Smeralda.

CHI & COSA Marco Glaviano, the famous Italian photographer who discovered some of the most famous international and Italian top models (such as the beautiful Eva Riccobono) inaugurates the "Jazz & Model" exhibition. Whose works, already exhibited by the Municipality of Milan at Palazzo Morando in 2010 and by the Province of Palermo at the Loggiato San Bartolomeo in 2013, are curated by the Villa Wirz art center and exhibited as "Permanente Marco Glaviano".

QUANDO E DOVE: Marco Glaviano's exhibition "Jazz & Model" is held at Poltu Quatu Art - museum space inside Poltu Quatu Resort, on the Costa Smeralda. This space aims to be a new hub dedicated to art that will host artists, exhibitions and installations every year. Inaugurated on June 21st, Marco Glaviano's exhibition will remain open to the public until August 28th. Free entry – always open

I LIKE: Marco Glaviano (Palermo, 1942) is a photographer with a degree in architecture, who has worked for the main magazines and fashion houses between Europe and the United States, collaborating with many of the best-known models in the world. He is a pioneer of digital photography, having been the first to publish a digital photo in American Vogue in 1982. His fashion, celebrity, landscape, and jazz photos have been exhibited in numerous museums and are renowned in public and private collections throughout the world. world. With this "Jazz & Model" exhibition the photographer Marco Glaviano wants to celebrate 4 of his favorite photographic themes: Jazz, Supermodels, Land Escape and Palermo.

1. Jazz: wants to give shape to emotions through music, trying to recreate the feelings and passions that accompany our lives.

2. Super Models: everything that embodies the perfection of beauty, every detail, every nuance of the face and body represents passion and soul. Some models that are part of the collection are Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Paulina Porizkova and many more.

3. Land Escape: a journey through places with various suggestions, shots taken from the top of a skyscraper or from a traveling car or just by the sea or in the center of a city. Landscapes and nature have constantly fascinated the artist over the years. Numerous photographic services and books have been created in Sardinia.

4. Palermo: hometown, is represented by Eleonora Abbagnato “Etoile at the Opéra Garnier in Paris”, while dancing at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

Four themes developed with mastery and poetry, in an exhibition - that of Marco Glaviano on the Costa Smeralda - not to be missed...

Marco Glaviano Cindy Crawford (St Barth), 1984

Marco Glaviano Cindy Crawford (St Barth), 1990

Marco Glaviano Claudia Schiffer for Italian Vogue (Guanahani, St Barth), 1990

Marco Glaviano Olga Serova (St Barth), 2006

Marco Glaviano Paulina Porizkova, 1989

Marco Glaviano

Marco Glaviano Eleonora Abbagnato, 2005

Marco Glaviano Buck Clayton, NY Studio, 1997

Marco Glaviano Chet Baker (Pescara, Italy) 1975

Marco Glaviano Dexter Gordon, New York, 1973