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The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Rome and agencies

Oliviero Toscani, photographer behind provocative Benetton ads, dies aged 82

Oliviero Toscani holds up some of the images from the campaign, which comprise headshots of people of different races
Oliviero Toscani displays a Benetton ad campaign inspired by the 50th anniversary of the UN declaration of universal human rights, in March 1998. Photograph: Gérard Julien/AFP/Getty Images

Tributes have been paid to Oliviero Toscani, the Italian fashion photographer renowned for the provocative images used in Benetton’s advertising campaigns, who has died aged 82.

Toscani, who for two decades was the art director of the global clothing chain, died on Monday after being hospitalised close to his home in the Tuscan town of Cecina.

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