Benedetta Barzini detests images. Once one of Italy’s top models, Barzini has spent most of her life rebelling against not just the commodification of her body, but also our cultural obsession ...

The film is a tribute to his mother, Benedetta Barzini — the first Italian model on the cover of American Vogue (in 1965), and a beloved, if notably brief, fixture of the Warhol Factory/Ford ...

we catch glimpses of a luminous Benedetta in sequined opera gloves. In her modeling heyday, Barzini tended to leave the maquillage to professionals. “In Penn’s or Avedon’s studios,” she ...

Usually, the impulse is fleeting. But for Benedetta Barzini, a seventy-six-year-old supermodel turned professor, this kind of longing is a full-bore obsession. Barzini, who was born into great ...

An Italian supermodel who graced the covers of fashion magazines and the margins of Warhol’s Factory scene before rejecting the worlds of artifice and image, Benedetta Barzini has been ...

Benedetta Barzini has spent the entirety of her adult life in front of a camera. At age 20, she was plucked off the street in Rome by the editor of Italian Vogue and was soon whisked away into the ...

That was the thing: I never really felt like an active participant in my own life in New York, merely a witness to the spectacle. In those days, the job of a model was to be a pretty face - no more, ...

That’s the claim made by Benedetta Barzini in “The Disappearance of My Mother,” one of several memorable documentaries in this year’s Sundance Film Festival. A former Italian supermodel ...

“The Disappearance of My Mother” follows iconic ‘60s fashion model turned activist Benedetta Barzini, a muse to artists and image-makers like Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Irving Penn and ...

The lineup included 73-year-old Benedetta Barzini, 69-year-old Jan Ward de Villeneuve, and 50-year-old Cecilia Chancellor, who all had major modeling careers in decades past. In Paris, Dries Van ...