Joseph Leombruno and Jack Bodi (1918-1986) were American fashion photographers based in Italy. They collaborated with famous magazines like Vogue, Glamour, House & Garden, Modern Bride, Town & Country, Novita and the NY Yimes during the 1950s and 1960s. Life and work partners, their partnership began in the 1940s and lasted 43 years. According to Bernadine Morris, fashion journalist at the NY Times, “Leombruno and Bodi were among the first Americans to photograph Parisian haute couture at the end of WWII”. They also made portraits of American actors in the Fifties. In the 1960s they became fashion designers in launching a knitwear line called “Micia” (“little cat”).

Fifties elegance in black and white :

April 1955 Vogue

January Vogue 1956

January 1956 Vogue

Vogue 1956

Vogue 1955

October 1959

1956

June 1956 Vogue

Model in Sundress with Sailors. 1954

June 1954

1950s

Sunny Harnett May 1954 “Glamour”

Model Mary McLaughlin – 1954

August 1955

Sunny Harnett, photo by Leombruno, Glamour, 1954

April 1955

December 1954

1955 Model in dress with yellow dotted cummerbund by Brigance of Sportsmaker

1954

Jantzen swimsuit,1955

Model Anne St Marie wearing a black knit maillot by Catalina and a wide-brimmed beach bonnet by Brett Winston. July 1955 Glamour

1956

Virna Lisi, 1965

Op art 1966

1960

March Vogue 1962

Benedetta Barzini, Vogue January 1964

1963

1963

Baronne van Zuylen in Egypt by Leombruno-Bodi for Vogue, August 1965

January 1960 Vogue

Katherine Pastrie, July 1960 Vogue

April 1960 Vogue

February 1960 Vogue

Suzy Parker ; January 1958 Vogue