Word: scavullo
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DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, ubiquitous fashion photographer best known for 30 years' worth of provocative Cosmopolitan magazine covers; in New York City. During his teenage years in Manhattan, he served as an apprentice to photographers at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and was soon shooting photos for those and other prestige magazines. His work ranged from flower studies to portraits of such celebrities as Sting, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly. In 1981 he was diagnosed with manic depression but credited his manic highs for much of his artistic creativity...
DIED. FRANCESCO SCAVULLO, 82, fashion photographer who could make plain women look beautiful and fashion models look like Cosmo girls; in New York City. Scavullo's work was published in Rolling Stone, TIME, Sports Illustrated and Harper's Bazaar, but he was best known for photographing more than 300 Cosmopolitan covers from 1965 to 1997 in which Scavullo's lights and lenses, and his team's exacting attention to skin, hair and costume, produced a look that became unique to the magazine. Scavullo did celebrity portraits, glamorized Watergate figure Martha Mitchell for a 1974 cover of New York magazine...