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Elizabeth
Taylor "Brilliant, sensitive, Gianni always
catches the soul."—Elizabeth Taylor It was 1965 when Bozzacchi, an impetuous twenty-two-year-old, was given the chance of a lifetime. The streetwise kid from Rome was sent to Africa as special photographer on the set of The Comedians, a movie starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Alec Guinness, and Peter Ustinov. As the film wrapped, Taylor offered Bozzacchi a job as her personal photographer. Elizabeth Taylor was the world's most famous woman at the time and undoubtedly its most glamorous. Her marriage to Richard Burton claimed international attention, and together they were the quintessential jet-set couple. Bozzacchi was to work with Taylor and Burton for the next eleven years. They opened the door to their world for him, and his own talent, drive, and artistic style earned him extraordinary success. Publications wanted his services, as did the movie and fashion industries, celebrities, political figures, and the merely famous. Bozzacchi was awarded the honor of International Photographer of the Year three times and became a celebrity himself, the subject of magazine layouts and television interviews. "I so enjoyed this book by Gianni
Bozzacchi about his friend Elizabeth. He thinks she's a blast
of fun, and there's a hint of mischief that he sometimes caught
that's fresh and spontaneous. In my favorite shot, she runs to
camera, her legs bare and strong, strangely revealed, a gleeful,
slightly spoiled child-woman. In this collection of photos you
feel her private thoughts, her love, her sadness often near the
surface, and that survivor spirit, so admirable always in such
an exposed and difficult life."—Jacqueline Bisset Photo credit: Kelley Vander Velden Bozzacchi A press kit
for this book is available at Bozzacchi
Press kit |
Published
October 2002
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Gianni
Bozzacchi
works today as a writer, producer, and director. He has collaborated
on feature films with Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Pietro
Germi, Vittorio De Sica, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini,
and Luchino Visconti. Currently, he and Roy Scheider are producing
for television The Renaissance, a twenty-four-hour drama
and a twenty-hour documentary supported in part by the European
Community, S.A.S. Prince Albert of Monaco, and the members of
the entertainment community. Gianni Bozzacchi lives in Rome,
New York, and Franklin, Wisconsin. 
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