{"id":5213,"date":"2017-04-05T16:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2017-04-06T08:42:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T07:42:21","slug":"cnn-style-oliviero-toscani-donald-trump-is-a-kitschy-suburban-hairdresser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/?p=5213","title":{"rendered":"CNN style &#8211; Oliviero Toscani: &#8216;Donald Trump is a kitschy, suburban hairdresser&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Michele Bonechi, CNN<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/cnn-style-aprile-2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">articolo in pdf<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">(CNN)\u00a0<\/cite>For the last five decades, Italian photographer<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/europe\/08\/13\/oliviero.toscani\/\">\u00a0Oliviero Toscani<\/a>\u00a0has been challenging the status quo with his provocative images.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Over the years his oeuvre has been diverse, ranging from fashion editorials and album covers to social awareness campaigns.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">He&#8217;s perhaps best known for his work with United Colors of Benetton, where he served as artistic director for more than 20 years. His controversial campaigns addressed subjects such as sexuality, racism, war, capital punishment and AIDS.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Challenging the role of the advertising image by fusing commerce with social commentary, many of the campaigns drew criticism and censorship, and even incited\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2001\/jun\/18\/advertising.marketingandpr\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuits<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">For his most recent project, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.razzaumana.it\/index.php?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Razza Umana<\/a>&#8221; (The Human Race), Toscani took portraits of people from around the world to &#8220;capture the face of humanity.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__read-all\">\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">A new retrospective exhibition of his work in Milan, titled &#8220;Oliviero Toscani: More than 50 years of Magnificent Failures,&#8221; showcases 400 of Toscani&#8217;s powerful images and campaigns.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Speaking to CNN at the exhibition, it&#8217;s clear the 75-year-old photographer is still not afraid to voice his strong opinions, sounding off on freedom, migration and Donald Trump.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Very few people are free,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;and the few people who are free, they have to work harder to show other people how to get to their freedom.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/it\/portfolio.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oliviero Toscani<\/a>: More than 50 years of Magnificent Failures&#8221; is on until April 28. at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitelightart.it\/it\/galleria\/mostre\/piu-di-50-anni-di-magnifici-fallimenti\/\" target=\"_blank\">Whitelight Art Gallery<\/a>\u00a0in Milan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/05\/arts\/oliviero-toscani-photography\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">fonte CNN style + video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Michele Bonechi, CNN articolo in pdf (CNN)\u00a0For the last five decades, Italian photographer\u00a0Oliviero Toscani\u00a0has been challenging the status quo with his provocative images. Over the years his oeuvre has been diverse, ranging from fashion editorials and album covers to<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/?p=5213\">Leggi &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[791,31,670,3],"tags":[813,831,849,848,259,844,23,212,44,41,50,847],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5215,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions\/5215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.olivierotoscanistudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}