PRESS RELEASE

MY ELIZABETH Book signing with FIROOZ ZAHEDI

Acclaimed photographer Firooz Zahedi will present his book My Elizabeth published by Glitterati editions at the Galleria Carla Sozzani on Wednesday June 22nd, at 7.00 pm.

Documenting a little-known era of Taylor’s life, from 1976 to 2011, these photos, many of which are never-before-published, offer a singular glimpse into her private life. Zahedi reveals in My Elizabeth an extraordinarily playful and yet whimsical, down-to-earth spirit never truly successfully captured by celebrity photographers.

Elizabeth Taylor would become a truly inimitable Hollywood star beloved the world over, and very few people would have private access to her as her celebrity grew. But Firooz Zahedi met the mega-star as a budding photographer at the age of 27. At the time, neither knew that the mesmerizing violet-eyed star would become one of his biggest professional supporters and dearest friends.

Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran and attended secondary school in England before moving to the United States in 1969 to study at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art. After working as a photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, he moved to Los Angeles in 1978 with Elizabeth Taylor, as her personal photographer on the film, “A Little Night Music.” He later became a contract photographer for Vanity Fair. His editorial work has also appeared in Vogue, GQ, Town & Country, Architectural Digest and Entertainment Weekly. His portraits, fine art photographs, and collages have been shown in prominent galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Basel, London and Dubai as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach. My Elizabeth book is in its third printing.

My Elizabeth di Firooz Zaheedi Prefazione di Liz Smith e testo di Bob Colacello - English text 30 x 33 cm 116-pagine Glitterati Publisher - € 75

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