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Willy Rizzo, a world-renowned photographer and designer, spent his life creating joy, immortalizing and elevating the world around him—actors, artists, fashion designers, his friends, and his family—always with a personal touch, that little something that made all the difference, flawless technique, and an intimacy they cherished.
Willy was himself a star among stars; he married Elsa Martinelli, played a mafia godfather in Danny DeVito’s *Hoffa*, and became Walter Rizotto in the *Tintin* album *The Castafiore Emerald*.
Although he began his career in photography in 1945 at the age of eighteen, he was hired by *France Dimanche* to cover the first Cannes Film Festival before becoming one of the pillars of *Paris Match* upon its founding in 1949 and contributing to *Vogue* magazine for some twenty years.
In 1966, in Rome, initially for his friends, he began designing furniture in a style that was both contemporary and avant-garde, with an elegant simplicity as timeless as his photographs.
This large-format, luxurious book, in the tradition of the major monographs published by Éditions Contrejour and designed by the Intensité studio, brings together for the first time the two facets of the artist, presenting a selection of his design and photographic works, interspersed with texts by Willy Rizzo—always
—which are spot-on and full of humor and joie de vivre.
Backlight, 2014
208 pages
24 × 33 cm
ISBN 9791090294141
Willy Rizzo, a world-renowned photographer and designer, spent his life creating joy, immortalizing and elevating the world around him—actors, artists, fashion designers, his friends, and his family—always with a personal touch, that little something that made all the difference, flawless technique, and an intimacy they cherished.
Willy was himself a star among stars; he married Elsa Martinelli, played a mafia godfather in Danny DeVito’s *Hoffa*, and became Walter Rizotto in the *Tintin* album *The Castafiore Emerald*.
Although he began his career in photography in 1945 at the age of eighteen, he was hired by *France Dimanche* to cover the first Cannes Film Festival before becoming one of the pillars of *Paris Match* upon its founding in 1949 and contributing to *Vogue* magazine for some twenty years.
In 1966, in Rome, initially for his friends, he began designing furniture in a style that was both contemporary and avant-garde, with an elegant simplicity as timeless as his photographs.
This large-format, luxurious book, in the tradition of the major monographs published by Éditions Contrejour and designed by the Intensité studio, brings together for the first time the two facets of the artist, presenting a selection of his design and photographic works, interspersed with texts by Willy Rizzo—always
—which are spot-on and full of humor and joie de vivre.
Backlight, 2014
208 pages
24 × 33 cm
ISBN 9791090294141
