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Mario Testino: Portraits This exhibition brings together over 100 photographs in which Mario Testino captures contemporary celebrities from the worlds of fashion, film, music and style. His subjects include Robbie Williams, Liz Hurley and Sophie Dahl, as well as a large number of Hollywood's youngest stars. Testino is one of fashion's most sought-after and charismatic photographers, and his life-size colour images have the effect of turning his subjects into secular icons. Moving from his native Peru to London in the late 1970s, he has worked regularly for British, French and Italian Vogue, The Face and Vanity Fair, and has had his work exhibited widely in Europe and Japan. Much of the fascination of his photography lies in today's cult of celebrity, youth and a particular ideal of beauty. This is the only Scottish showing of the exhibition, first seen with phenomenal success at London's National Portrait Gallery. |
