The photographer Oliviero Toscani. The family announced it, asking for confidentiality. Having been ill for some time, Toscani was hospitalized at Cecina Hospital, in the province of Livorno. The famous photographer was hospitalized on Friday January 10. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease, amyloidosis, which quickly caused him to lose 40 kilos.
Born in Milan in 1942, his father Faithful Toscani was one of the historic photojournalists of “Corriere della Sera”. In more than fifty years of career, he has revolutionized the world of communication and made numerous advertising campaigns famous, particularly in the world of fashion. Those of Benetton were brilliant and controversial: Toscani began to use the advertising medium to talk about the problems of the world.
The photographer revealed his illness last summer: “I have an incurable illness, I don’t know how long I have left to live,” he said in an interview with “Corriere della Sera” on 28 august.
Oliviero Toscani “was one of the greatest interpreters of contemporary photography, but also a controversial lover of excess” commented the Minister of Culture in a note, Alexandre Giuli. “A narrator-visionary of our time who knew how to shape visual language, transforming it into a powerful form of communication and collective reflection. His photography – concluded the minister – was an instrument of provocation, denunciation and dialogue, capable of defying conventions and placing issues of social, political and cultural importance at the center of public debate.”
The newspaper Libération remembers the photographer with one of his works against nuclear tests published in 1995
The French newspaper “Libération” pays tribute to the photographer Oliviero Toscani by publishing on its website the front page of a 1995 edition, presenting an image by the artist representing the face of the president of the time. Jacques Chirac deformed by a nuclear explosion. The reference is to the tests that France was carrying out at that time in Polynesia. “Mururoa, his love” (Mururoa his love, in Italian) is the title that accompanies the photo. “Libération” recalls having asked “the Italian photographer to translate into images the health dangers of the explosions”.
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