Oliviero Toscani Photos
Condoms – 1991
Oliviero ToscaniIn the years in which AIDS was killing like never before, Oliviero Toscani created a rain of colored condoms, like a powerful contemporary fresco that shows us sex from a safe and joyful perspective.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Le Bambole – 1973
Oliviero ToscaniDuring the Salone del Mobile in Milan, Oliviero Toscani creates the first photograph that represents Made in Italy, where he combines design and fashion. This photograph will open up a new language of communication.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Eyes – 1994
Oliviero ToscaniAt the beginning of the 1990s, Oliviero Toscani created Fabrica, a communication research centre, and once again, with a view to exalting differences, he chose as his symbol the face of an African with two different eyes. That photograph struck David Bowie so much that he decided to write a song about it, Black Tie, White Noise.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Lady with hat – 1973
Oliviero ToscaniDonna Jordan in a photograph for Vogue, where Oliviero Toscani ironically quotes the cliché of the fashion images of the past, where the models were distant, untouchable and reserved for the powerful sheikhs.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Wolf and lamb – 1990
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani often plays on the overturning of stereotypes and then a lamb becomes black and a wolf becomes white.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Baby on horseback – 1998
Oliviero ToscaniThe strength of a magnificent stallion and the delicacy of a baby. Together, for the advertising of Oliviero Toscani's horse farm.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Peasant – 1977
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani has always been fascinated by Mike Disfarmer, who was the first to photograph American farmers on a white background at the beginning of the 1900s, using natural light. This peasant from Tuscany is photographed by Toscani following the teaching of what he considers one of his Masters. It is the beginning of a journey that will lead Toscani to investigate the human condition through portraits.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Hands – 1990
Oliviero ToscaniOne of Oliviero Toscani's most iconic photographs used as a United Colors of Benetton campaign, this image shows once again that it is not equality but difference that unites.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
The Pointer Sisters – 1975
Oliviero ToscaniIt was the year of The Pointer Sisters' third album, shortly before Bonnie's departure for a solo career. They weren't known at all at the time, but Oliviero Toscani saw in them the multi-ethnic force with which American music would revolutionize the world.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Blindfolded women – 2005
Oliviero ToscaniThe obsession of the body. A group of blindfolded women just in the points where cosmetic surgery is most used, which distorts the human body concealing it.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Colored marbles – 1990
Oliviero ToscaniIn photography, with the union of black and white you can create all colors.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Peppers – 2014
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, born as a legacy of the Bauhaus: at the academy Toscani studied in particular Johannes Itten's theory of color and even in the apparently simplest photographs, such as two peppers, we find an in-depth study of chromatic relationships.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Federico Fellini – 1975
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani remembers the curiosity of Fellini, who entered the courtyards of the houses in to "peek". Often the director went to visit Toscani when he was in Rome, watching him while he worked. This portrait was made by Toscani in a studio in the city.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Model with flowers – 2015
Oliviero ToscaniSince his debut in the world of fashion, Oliviero Toscani's models are cheerful, carefree, running and jumping expressing joy and happiness. This photo is for an Elle Italy feature dedicated to luxury.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Unifirm – 1994
Oliviero ToscaniThis photo became the symbolic image of the horror of the former Jugoslavia war, without showing deaths, without showing bombs. With the bloody uniform of a Croatian soldier who had just been killed, Oliviero Toscani displayed the concrete result of the war.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Water – 2004
Oliviero ToscaniConflicts over water in the world are a sad reality and its control means the guarantee of a power exercised on the skin of the poorer: is it possible that we can erect a protection of barbed wires on a good that is the right of every human being? This photograph was exhibited at the "Acqua" exhibition in Milan.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Amish – 2005
Oliviero ToscaniOn the occasion of the launch of the world's first hybrid car, Oliviero Toscani chooses an Amish family for the campaign of the Toyota Prius. It is well known that Amish reject all modernity. They would never buy a car, not even an environmentally friendly one....€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Alice Cooper – 1974
Oliviero ToscaniAt the beginning of the seventies it was very difficult to explain to newspapers the importance of the icons that were forming and that would become established. Oliviero Toscani became a reference point for underground culture, especially music. Thanks to him, numerous singers were published. One example is Alice Cooper, photographed in New York for Vogue.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
War cemetery – 1991
Oliviero ToscaniWith this photograph Oliviero Toscani speaks of death and the absurdity of war without showing a drop of blood. We are in 1991, the year of the first Gulf War.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Glass – 2005
Oliviero ToscaniThese polychrome glass feathers from the Murano Pauly art glassworks become an abstraction of colors and shapes.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Fish – 2014
Oliviero ToscaniThis fish is one of the many products of a chain of supermarkets for which Oliviero Toscani was in charge of communication: a series of images that transformed the perception of a supermarket into a sort of “wunderkammern” of food rather than a commercial exercise.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Mother and child – 1980
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani collaborated with Prenatal for a long time. This is one of the most iconic photographs of the brand that has become a reference point for mothers all over the world.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Head – 1994
Oliviero ToscaniOliviero Toscani in 1991 founds Colors, innovative magazine that has changed the world publishing. This picture was the cover of the issue about religion.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00
Cattelan – 2019
Oliviero ToscaniArtist Maurizio Cattelan is stealing his Golden Water, the artwork that really disappeared from Blenheim Palace in Oxford in 2019. On the occasion of the launch of "Arte Generali", the company that will specifically deal with the works for the global insurance giant, Oliviero Toscani signs the campaign immortalizing Maurizio Cattelan, naked and while he takes flight with the loot.€550,00 – €1.500,00€550,00 – €1.500,00