Womanizer

Brianna Capozzi has spent the past decade contributing to a movement of contemporary female-led fashion photography. Her work is frequently published in: American Vogue, British Vogue and Vogue Italia, Dazed Magazine, Interview, Pop Magazine, Double Magazine, M Le Monde, Reedition Magazine and many others. She s photographed campaigns for Gucci, Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, Cartier, Nike, Adidas, Victoria s Secret, Fenty, Rare Beauty, and Burberry, a shot Miley Cyrus s album cover, Flowers. Her books include Well Behaved Women (2018) and Sisters (2024), both published by Idea Books.

"Brianna Capozzi has sent me a list of what fascinates her as an artist. It reads, “New Yorkers, the East coast, the West coast, animations, blondes, things that shine, the colour pink, strong muscles, good hair, visible veins, skin showing, noses, teeth.” She elaborates, “Women and everything that makes up being one: the energy, the demeanour, the style, the way their bodies move, their muscles, their faces, their noses, their hair and their secrets.” Her new book, Womanizer (published by Rizzoli), is permeated with these obsessions. Bringing together over ten years of glorious portraits and fashion editorials by the inimitable photographer, every page is a testament to the allure of women and the culture and artefacts of womanhood. “This book means so much to me. It’s a compilation of over a decade of my favourite images. The throughline between each image and woman is the charged, humorous energy that makes up a large part of my practice as a photographer,” she explains. “Women are so complex and powerful. We have the ability to do so much and be so grand. In my eyes, women really rule the world in all aspects of life and creativity.” Capozzi brings an innovative, improvisational spirit to many of her shoots. While they are intricately moodboarded and conceived in advance with her longtime collaborator Haley Wollens, she’s agile – prepared to whip off her own bra to use as an accessory, or nip to goodwill shops and delis for props, taping and sewing bespoke accessories, street casting, breaking into abandoned properties to find the right location, or enlisting her boyfriend, family and neighbours as extras wherever required." — DAZED & CONFUSED“Not too serious, a bit off, a bit strange,” is how photographer Brianna Capozzi describes David Lynch movies — and, in the same breath, herself. Capozzi credits her playful New Jersey upbringing for the cheeky and “very pop” work (think Chloë Sevigny wearing a lobster) she has compiled in a new volume, Womanizer (Rizzoli, $65). Capozzi combed through images she shot over the past decade for British Vogue, American Vogue, Vogue Italia, Interview, W, AnOther, Dazed, The Face, and Pop, many on location in California, for the volume she calls a “complete pendulum swing in a different direction” from her last work, Sisters, a very intimate look at subjects she cast.As for the book title, Capozzi enjoys the wordplay. “It’s taking back this word womanizer. I think I clearly love shooting powerful women and having these exchanges with them, and we’re doing exactly what we want to do without anyone’s opinions,” she says. Power and play between the photographer and subject can coexist. “I like shooting women and making them look sexy and in charge of their bodies,” she says. “We can be as erotic or playful as we want. It’s a celebration of women, and I felt it was a fitting title.” — C: CALIFORNIA STYLE MAGAZINE