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Franco Gobbi’s Fragile is a series of photographs featuring the
world top models. His aim is to surpass the straightforward portrait and
instead create images that capture the essense of what is illusive,
fragile, and vulnerable in these highly photographed subjects. The women
in his photographs live on the stages of art, photography, cinema,
theater, and fashion. He seeks out subjects who are “deeply connected
with Mother Earth” and who understand her capacity for generation and
regeneration.
Gobbi believes that this connection grants the women he
photographs the capacity to return to their own essence, no matter the
physical modifications required of her. Gobbi’s work draws on and refers
to an array of predecessors, including Man Ray, Francis Bacon, and Andy
Warhol. Fragile is Gobbi’s debut book of photography.