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 :
January Vogue 1956
April 1955 Vogue
Vogue 1955
Vogue 1956
January 1956 Vogue
October 1959
1956
Model in Sundress with Sailors. 1954
August 1955
Sunny Harnett, photo by Leombruno, Glamour, 1954
Model Mary McLaughlin – 1954
June 1956 Vogue
June 1954
Sunny Harnett May 1954 “Glamour”
December 1954
April 1955
1950s
1955 Model in dress with yellow dotted cummerbund by Brigance of Sportsmaker
1956
Model Anne St Marie wearing a black knit maillot by Catalina and a wide-brimmed beach bonnet by Brett Winston. July 1955 Glamour
Jantzen swimsuit,1955
1954
March Vogue 1962
1963
1960
1963
Op art 1966
Virna Lisi, 1965
Benedetta Barzini, Vogue January 1964
Katherine Pastrie, July 1960 Vogue
January 1960 Vogue
Baronne van Zuylen in Egypt by Leombruno-Bodi for Vogue, August 1965
April 1960 Vogue
February 1960 Vogue
Suzy Parker ; January 1958 Vogue
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