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Marina Cicogna is one of Italy's premier film producers, working with the likes of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Zeffirelli and Sergio Leone on films such as Once Upon A Time In The West. In the 1960s, this scion of an aristocratic Milanese family moved and shook with the global jet set, snapping her famous friends and acquaintances as they revealed their more playful natures away from the gaze of the public.
And God created Brigitte Bardot – or rather, the paparazzi did. The original sexy French actress is the star of this exhibition which focuses on her role as dream fodder for photographers. Shots of Bardot on set and about town not only shaped her own image but fuelled the public’s growing obsession with celebrity and brought about a new relaxed aesthetic to female glamour.