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Alberto Magliozzi

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Alberto Magliozzi
Born
Alberto Magliozzi

(1949-09-17) September 17, 1949 (age 75)
Nettuno, Italy
NationalityItalian
Occupationphotographer
Years active1968–present

Alberto Magliozzi (born September 17, 1949, in Nettuno) is an Italian glamor photographer.[1][2][3]

Magliozzi prefers to shoot in black and white instead of color, and uses analogue film instead of digital.[4] His style has created a counter-trend, with him being credited as an originator of shooting with medium-format equipment. During his career, he has photographed many famous women. In some cases, his photography has created scandals.[5][6][7][8][9][10] Articles about Magliozzi have appeared in various magazines, including Playboy and Penthouse.[11][12]

Biography

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Manuela Arcuri,[4] 1995

Magliozzi was born in Nettuno in 1949, the first of three brothers, to Gastone and Vittoria Liberati. When he was six, he was registered in private piano and accordion lessons. Magliozzi enrolled in classical studies at San Francesco in the Lazio town, but never completed his studies. He was inspired by a Tony Esposito concert to form a band called the Bum Group in 1967. They performed in clubs on the peninsula and at the Tartana club in Follonica in 1969. That same year, he met the guitarist Peter Van Wood who suggested doing a tour with Renato Rascel. The first stop was Elba Island. Magliozzi, who had a Leica M3 with him, decided to photograph the models, and Schuberth asked to view his shots. The two met in Rome, and Schuberth recommended that Magliozzi devote himself more to photography after seeing the pictures. Magliozzi moved to Milan to take courses in professional photography and collaborate with the photographer Francesco Escalar[13] until 1990.[14]

Éva Henger, 1997

In addition to reports that have appeared in Playboy and Penthouse, Magliozzi's reports have appeared in several other fashion and glamor magazines such as Marie Claire, TU Style of Mondadori, Maxim, [15] and Boss Magazine.

Glamor as a social pretext

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The glamor conceived by Magliozzi has always been soft.[clarification needed] According to him, the photos of him can be defined as "mischievous", "sexy", often "provocative", but never "hard". Faces and female bodies also for works apparently irreconcilable with his photographic themes, even temporary living "installations", in disparate "natural" locations, but almost never preconstructed and artificial.

Elenoire Casalegno, 1997: Penthouse of November 1997 dedicated the cover to this photo by Magliozzi[12]

For Magliozzi, "wine and the senses" are an essential combination, and he wanted to demonstrate the concept with a work in 2015 on the most famous wines of Sardinia.[16]

In Magliozzi's opinion, glamor can also be used as a means of social denunciation by addressing issues such asdrugs, violence and peace as opposed to war. His photographic book, Portraits of Life, dedicated four different sections to drugs, violence, and peace with a fourth section in which the models simulate the "dream" of "better expectations".[17]

In the field of communication, Magliozzi led as president the "top of the jury examining the works" of one of the largest photographic competitions ever held in Trieste: Communicating with images: photography. The competition as explained by Il Piccolo was a "'competition of ideas', a small laboratory of color, ideas, techniques and interpretations to highlight the entire territory of Trieste, at its best-known corners or niches to be rediscovered [...] is part of the recent proposals launched by 'Il Giulia per Trieste', a form of support for the enhancement of the city."[18]

Scandals

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An inconvenient person who has a "militant" concept of the profession [...] the use of the image as a denunciation. We must be not very accommodating if we want to tell the things of the world that are then those that surround us

— La Repubblica on Magliozzi[5]

Magliozzi used his calendars as means of denunciation and protest, and to arouse the indignation and reactions, including international ones several times. In 2003, the "Madonnas" calendar was created in the deconsecrated churches of the Sassi di Matera by models and young local girls photographed half-naked to address the religious theme of the Madonna, understood as a simple "undressed woman" from the religious significance attributed by some churches. In 2009, he created the "Weapon of mass distraction" calendar, in which he photographed the then-unknown Italian Alessandra Bosco, wife of a sergeant at the US airbase in Katterbach Kaserne, Germany.[19]

Francesca Tritto, 2003, one of the models of the controversial "Madonne" calendar

Magliozzi was excommunicated by the Bishop of Matera for "Madonnas".[20] ITN broadcast the "blasphemous calendar"[21] to the main television broadcasters in the English world[6] with the photos provided by Reuters.[22] The second calendar, taken at the American base, provoked reactions from amused soldiers and their "jealous wives",[19] as well as indignation from military leaders. The "scandalous case" was mentioned in Stars and Stripes.[19][23][24][25]

Photobooks

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  • Alberto Magliozzi, Ritratti di vita, prima edizione, Naples, Eman multimedial, 2007, ISBN 978-88-95509-00-6.[28]
  • Alberto Magliozzi, Ritratti di vita, seconda edizione, Girifalco, Società Editrice Montecovello, 2011, ISBN 978-88-97425-08-3.
  • Alberto Magliozzi, Ritratti di vita, terza edizione, Milan, Russano Editore, 2011, ISBN 978-88-6281-329-7.
  • Alberto Magliozzi, l'Arte, il Vino, i Sensi..., Padua, Altromondo Editore, 2009, ISBN 978-88-6281-329-7. Anche nel catalogo del Polo BNCF Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze
  • Alberto Magliozzi, L'accezione erotica, Rome, Polaris Group, 1995. Anche nel catalogo del Polo BNCF Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze

Calendars

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Exhibitions

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  • 2016, Reactive in the Mirror, collettiva, Berlino[32]
  • 2014, collettiva, Melbourne
  • 2010, personale, Florence (Sala del Gonfalone di Palazzo Panciatichi)
  • 2010, personale, Florence (Libreria Feltrinelli)
  • 2007, personale, Milan (Libreria Hoepli)
  • 2006, collettiva, Amsterdam
  • 2005, personale, Turin (Libreria Lattes)
  • 2005, personale, Florence (Sala Gigli di Palazzo Panciatichi)
  • 2004, personale, Budapest
  • 2002, personale, Prague
  • 2001, personale, Hamburg
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References

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  1. ^ "Dalla Henger alla Arcuri, il sogno sexy nelle foto di Magliozzi". Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  2. ^ "Francesca Tritto". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  3. ^ "Madonne". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Inedita Manuela, ecco l'Arcuri mai vista". Retrieved January 30, 2017.
  5. ^ a b "La moglie del sergente fa il calendario". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  6. ^ a b c "ITALY: Photographer Alberto Magliozzi Depicts A Naked Madonna On His 2003 Calendar". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  7. ^ "RTL television". YouTube. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  8. ^ "Botrányt okozott a katonafeleség erotikus naptára". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  9. ^ "Mulher de militar dedica calendario sexy a soldados". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  10. ^ "Naked Madonnas outrage Rome". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  11. ^ "TV: Per la prima volta Manuela Arcuri nuda su 'Playboy'". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  12. ^ a b "Penthouse novembre 1997". Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  13. ^ "Al Maxxi 'Glamor 'n soul', Francesco Escalar's photos between cinema and fashion". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  14. ^ "Died to Pertini Francesco Escalar, 49, star portraitist". Retrieved January 29, 2017.
  15. ^ "Manuela Arcuri". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  16. ^ "Alberto Magliozzi's models around the Sardinian cellars". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  17. ^ "Books, "PORTRAITS OF LIFE" in REGIONAL COUNCIL". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  18. ^ "Trieste remakes the image. In photo". Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  19. ^ a b c "The sergeant's wife she is in lingerie. Scandal for the sexy calendar". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  20. ^ "Matera 2019, European capital of eroticism". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  21. ^ "Manuela Arcuri called into question by Alberto Magliozzi the photographer of "Madonne Nude"". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  22. ^ "ITN SOURCE". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
  23. ^ "Ombudsman: Army spouse's sexy calendar draws jibes". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  24. ^ "Soldier's wife offers 12 months of distractions". Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  25. ^ "Letters to the editor for Wednesday, May 28, 2008 – Other spouses more worthy / Military gear for calendar girl?". Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  26. ^ "SexyGossip: 2002, in calendario c'è Stefania Orlando". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  27. ^ a b "Manuela Arcuri, foto sexy: topless da urlo". Archived from the original on February 3, 2017. Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  28. ^ "Sexy Gossip: dodici volte Miriana Trevisan". Retrieved January 31, 2017.
  29. ^ ""C'è una festa porta un'amica". Lyudmyla: sesso, droga e potere". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  30. ^ a b "Lunedi 28 maggio 2007 – La produzione". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  31. ^ "Military Spouse Offers One Year Of Distraction". Retrieved February 2, 2017.
  32. ^ "Il fotografo Alberto Magliozzi a Berlino con uno scatto storico dedicato ai Sassi di Matera". Retrieved January 24, 2017.
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