Claudia Cardinale enjoying a boat ride in Venice, 1967. She was first discovered at the Venice Film Festival in 1957, during a trip that she had won from a beauty contest in which she was crowned “The Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia.” © Bettmann/CORBIS via
A general view of the boxes at La Fenice, the Venice Opera House, 1st January 1954 via
Edwin Smith, Basilica of San Marco, Venice, 1961 via
Edwin Smith, Market from the Rialto Bridge, Venice, 1961 via
Edwin Smith, Santa Maria Della Salute and the Dogana di Mare seen from the Flooded Molo during ‘Acqua Alta’, Venice, 1961 via
Edwin Smith, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 1961 via
Edwin Smith, The Lagoon, Venice, 1961 via
American actor and Hollywood star and icon – Paul Newman, looking handsome and beautiful as ever and ultra cool, wearing a tuxedo and a bow tie, during a trip on a water taxi, a sailor cap on the dashboard, Venice 1963 via
Italian actress icon and sex symbol Sophia Loren portrayed standing on a terrace on the Canal Grande, wearing a white embroidered dress, Venice, 1955 via
Model in Venice’ is taken in a rare location for Newton: Venice. While its romanticism was a source of great inspiration for Newton, he only shot in the city on a handful of occasions, here for Queen Magazine in 1966 with clothes by Femme 90- an avant-garde designer at the time. Venice appealed to Newton for its water and elegance of the vaporetto. Here, the model’s clothing sprays in the wind, leaving her enigmatically anonymous via
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