Willy Rizzo(1928 – 2013)是来自意大利的摄影师和设计师,被认为是XX世纪最好的纪录片摄影师之一。在他相对较长的生活中,他曾与几代名人 – 从Marilyn Monroe到Milla Jovovich共同合作。
Willy Rizzo was born in Naples, Italy and moved to France with his mother in the 1930’s. In the beginning of his career Rizzo assisted portrait photographer Aldo before gaining employment on his own, beginning with his coverage of The Cannes Film Festival for France Sunday. In 1945, Rizzo met Arletty Raimu and Micheline Presle and photographed the inaugural cover of Paris Match Magazine in 1949. He would continue to photograph personalities such as Brigitte Bardot, Audrey Hepburn, Pablo Picasso, Marlene Dietrich, and Dizzy Gillespie extensively for the magazine for the next twenty years while also working alongside the famed Conde Nast editor Alexander Lieberman at Vogue.