Video: Funny faces of celebrities in the Funny faces photo project by Willie Rizzo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Willie Rizzo is the greatest photographer and designer, a recognized genius and one of the best documentary photographers of the 20th century. During his relatively long life (the master lived 84 years), he managed to work with several generations of celebrities - from Marilyn Monroe to Milla Jovovich. His series of celebrity photos Funny faces definitely came out very funny.
Rizzo was born on October 22, 1928 in Naples, a large Italian city. In the 30s, little Willie moved with his mother to France. As a child, he felt a passion for photography - often and willingly photographed classmates. He later joined the newspaper Point de Vue, from which he was sent to Tunisia to cover the aftermath of the conflict in North Africa. His report impressed the management of Life magazine so much that they bought all of his pictures.
He soon began working with France Dimanche, covering the personal lives of celebrities. Rizzo got the opportunity to attend the first Cannes Film Festival - it was then that his amazing talent for winning people was revealed. His natural charm and unplayed charm helped him create extraordinary photographs.
Rizzo enjoyed working with celebrities, was attracted by the mythical Hollywood, and he certainly wanted to work in the developing post-war America. He travels to New York, where, under an agreement with the Black Star agency, he has to capture … a one-dollar stocking vending machine installed in a cinema for motorists. This prospect hardly appealed to the ambitious photographer; he returns to France, where he was destined to begin his glorious twenty-year career with the French edition of Paris Match. And after marrying actress Elsa Martinelli, he is given the opportunity to meet such movie stars as: Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda and many others.
Once, photographing Catherine Deneuve, he saw her unusually rich facial expressions. “When the shooting was coming to an end, I asked her to make a funny face for fun. And he continued to shoot. I think the funnier faces you can make, the greater the strength of your talent,”says Rizzo. This is how the photo project was born, in which Sophia Loren, Jane Fonda, Marie Laforêt and many other celebrities later took part.
Not every time the stars feel so at ease in front of the camera. Take them … passport photos.
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