Featured in TV Guide 2013 Holiday Gift catalog.
In the eighties, photographer Mario Casilli embraced soft-focus,
high-gloss, backlit backdrops of every color to immortalize the
biggest stars (and styles) of the time in all of their
rhinestone-covered glory. Casilli, who started off his career
shooting for Playboy in the late fifties, photographed 57 Playmates
before shifting gears to work for TV Guide in the eighties. Over
the course of his career, he snapped the casts of Miami Vice,
Knight Rider, Baywatch, and The Golden Girls and took intense,
incredible glamour shots of musicians like Barbra Streisand, the
Bee Gees, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and more. On Thursday,
Casilli's first-ever book of portraits -- a time capsule to the
decade when big hair, polyester suits, shoulder pads, and blinding
beading reigned supreme -- will be published by Reel Art Press.
Click through the slideshow for a first look at the famous eighties
ladies Casilli photographed: Oprah Winfrey in a black-and-yellow
sequined top, Barbra Streisand posing sans-pants next to a
radiator, Linda Evans in an aerobics leotard, and more.
Review by Julie Ma, featured on The Cut website, Nov 19, 2013
Featured in TV Guide 2013 Holiday Gift catalog.
In the eighties, photographer Mario Casilli embraced soft-focus,
high-gloss, backlit backdrops of every color to immortalize the
biggest stars (and styles) of the time in all of their
rhinestone-covered glory. Casilli, who started off his career
shooting for Playboy in the late fifties, photographed 57 Playmates
before shifting gears to work for TV Guide in the eighties. Over
the course of his career, he snapped the casts of Miami Vice,
Knight Rider, Baywatch, and The Golden Girls and took intense,
incredible glamour shots of musicians like Barbra Streisand, the
Bee Gees, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, and more. On Thursday,
Casilli's first-ever book of portraits -- a time capsule to the
decade when big hair, polyester suits, shoulder pads, and blinding
beading reigned supreme -- will be published by Reel Art Press.
Click through the slideshow for a first look at the famous eighties
ladies Casilli photographed: Oprah Winfrey in a black-and-yellow
sequined top, Barbra Streisand posing sans-pants next to a
radiator, Linda Evans in an aerobics leotard, and more.
Review by Julie Ma, featured on The Cut website, Nov 19, 2013
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