A black and white anatomical illustration of the lower body with stylized muscles, focus on hips and thighs, in a minimalist art style.

FASHION & FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHER

Collage featuring three stylized female portraits with abstract elements. The first is black and white with striped patterns over the face. The second is a colorful, minimalist illustration of a woman's face with red lips and tears. The third is a black silhouette of a woman with detailed jewelry and a modern hairstyle.
Black and white abstract image of a human hand with curled fingers, with dramatic lighting and shadows
A collage of three images, with the left showing a woman's profile with a focus on her neck and hair, the middle showing a black-and-white photo of a woman's face upside down with styled hair and jewelry, and the right showing a woman in black attire with jewelry and a chain purse.

“ Silhouettes without names, unexpected geometries of arches and bodies, a sense of emotion, color, light, and shadow: these are the characteristics that made Alberto Rizzo one of the leading photographers in the fashion world, advertising, and fine art photography. A career marked by success, experimentation, and innovative ideas that set the tone for generations of young artists. ”

-FRANCA SOZZANI , EDITOR IN CHIEF, VOGUE ITALIA

“Alberto Rizzo’s work is a testament to his ability to CONTINUOUSLY reinvent himself and his work."

-ALFRED LOWENHERZ , CAMERA CLUB NYC

“ SCULPTING with light and line

aLBERTO rIZZO ( 1931-2004 ) WAS AN ITALIAN PHOTOGRAPHER AND PAINTER WHOSE EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH HELPED REDEFINE FASHION IMAGERY IN THE 1960’S AND 70’S. working in california and later new york, he produced photographs for harper’s bazaar, vogue and mademoiselle.

HIS WORK DEMONSTRATES A KEEN SENSITIVITY TO FORM AND LINE, OFTEN TRANSFORMING THE BODY INTO STRIKING GRAPHIC SILHOUETTES. IN THIS IMAGE, A MODEL IS RENDERED AS A HIGH CONTRAST SILHOUETTE AND ENHANCED THROUGH COLOR MANIPULATION AND MASKING TECHNIQUES, REFLECTING RIZZO’S INNOVATIVE FUSION OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND PAINTERLY PROCESS.

-VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON uk

The right word to describe Alberto Rizzo's work is dynamic.

The women in his pictures 'explode' out of the photograph thanks to the almost three-dimensional effect he manages to give his pictures.

Other images amaze with their composition, abstract forms of light and colour of enthralling fascination. Silhouettes that look as if drawn by a skilful hand but are instead the product of masterful use of light, which Rizzo dominates in an unusual way for a fashion photographer, designing enigmatic forms.

Bizarre compositions with perfect equilibrium respond to a way of 'inventing' fashion that goes beyond the demands of figuration.

Rizzo can transform any object at all (from a precious watch to a bar of soap or a perfume bottle) into a fantastic vision, doing away with cognition of the object itself to lose itself in an imaginative vision of great power.

Skilled in classic black and white photography, in colour Alberto Rizzo releases a creativity that rebels against the conventional formulas.

His work reconciles the opposites of photography so that we can no longer identify the boundaries between fashion photography and art photography.

His personal work, 'Shadows', is also emblematic of the rare virtue of grasping the

essential alone. A look out the window of his New York loft takes the form of quick snapshots of passers-by and the urban environment, stimuli for releasing the RIGOR of form and a new tool for the observer to use in getting to know reality.

-CARLA SOZZANI , GALLERIA CARLA SOZZANI

“ alberto redefined the standards for innovative fashion photography, always ENCOURAGING the public to challenge its expectations and embrace the avant-garde. ”

-SARAH KRUGER, PHILLIPS, HEAD OF PHOTOGRAPHS, NEW YORK

“ aLBERTO rizzo is not only one of the most important photographers of his time, he has proven the link between fashion and art. “

-Daniel azoulay gallery