Marco Glaviano Biography
Marco Glaviano (1942 - ) was born in Palermo, Sicily, in 1942. He studied architecture at the University of Palermo, developing his interest in photography during this period. He became involved in theater as a set designer and played at the same time. It was at several international music festivals during the 1960s that he began photographing other jazz musicians. Only in 1966 did Glaviano decide to dedicate himself to photography as a profession and moved briefly to Rome, then to Milan, founding a studio where he lived and worked for eight years. His photographs began to appear in major European fashion magazines, notably Vogue Italia, which eventually took him to New York City where he settled in 1975 and where he was soon under exclusive contract with Vogue America, and then from 1982 to 1994 with Harper's Bazaar. Glaviano has continued to photograph fashion and beauty for major American and European magazines and through these mediums has achieved status in the fashion industry as one of the best photographers in the world, having photographed more than 500 covers and editorials for the most prestigious publications international. In the 1980s, in collaboration with Elite founder John Casablancas and Elite president Monique Pillard, he was influential in the development of the supermodel phenomenon. Of capital importance was the foundation of the Pier 59 Studio in New York in 1995, still recognized today as the most important photographic studio in the world. His early interest in the new digital photography revolution led him to publish the first digital fashion photo in American Vogue in 1982. During his long career, he has consulted for Kodak, Fuji, Hasselblad, Phase One, Sinar and Scitex to advance the cause of digital photography. Glaviano has had thirty solo exhibitions of his work, in New York, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Southampton, Miami, St. Barth, Milan, Moscow, Palermo and Capri. Not to be limited by just one form of media, Glaviano has also photographed many major advertising campaigns for clients such as L'Oreal, Revlon, Calvin Klein, Valentino, Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli and many others. His interests in film and video have led him to direct a series of music, fashion and beauty television commercials and short films for America and Europe.
