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What the skilled camera sees in Rossellini is the rich texture of a life. Two top fashion photographers make almost identical observations about her. Richard Avedon calls her "a joy to work with-she's the product of an interesting life, not a model wired to a Walkman." Says Bruce Weber: "It's inspiring to shoot a woman who really is a woman, not a teen in woman's clothing. Isabella has turned everything around, making age, depth, experience, substance attractive...
...bubble-gum idols before him, he has cut some wax before he wanes: his first record, How Can I Live Without Her, is currently No. 89 on the charts. But there was still something missing, so his handlers suggested a take-it-off takeoff of the now famous Richard Avedon portrait of Natassia Kinski, 21, with a languorous python at her thigh. For Atkins, that meant posing in the outfit that he is best known for on-screen and lying cheek by jowl with a 6-ft.-long, 20-lb. female boa constrictor. The result is a gripping...
Having been photographed and interviewed fifty times in fourteen months. I have lost weight, sleep badly, and hate photographers, especially the artistic ones who take 200 shots of their subjects.... There are now eleven million photographs of me in this country and abroad, taken by Cartier-Bresson. Cecil Beaton, Avedon. Douglas Glass, Halsman, and on and on. I know when I have had enough...
They include, in addition to Iacocca, William Fine, head of the cosmetics firm Frances Denney, and Robert Brockway, the boss of Olympus Camera. Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of Iacocca that has already begun appearing in ads in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal...
Smiling coyly at the camera as she hunkers down on the floor and spreads her denim-clad legs wider than a 21-in. television screen, the teen-age temptress murmurs huskily, "You know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." Then Photographer Richard Avedon's lens zooms in to linger on Actress-Model Brooke Shields' taut jeans...