• Oliviero Toscani obituary

    Photographer and art director who oversaw a series of controversial ad campaigns for the Benetton fashion brandThe art direction and photographs of Oliviero Toscani were provocative not for what they showed – real life, he said, complex and contradictory – but where they were seen. The images, subjects ranging from a bloodied newborn baby to the condemned of death row, would have been unremarkable on the editorial pages of a classic photo-reportage publication such as Life or Paris M

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