Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Benedetta Barzini is an interesting subject for a documentary. Interesting in the sense that she, landing her first cover of Vogue ...

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 with ...

Beniamino Barrese’s debut documentary, The Disappearance Of My Mother, is an examination into his mom Benedetta Barzini, a former fashion model from the 1960s who has spent most of her life since then ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the age of Instagram, it may be hard for many to grasp that others might still treasure their privacy, to the point of actually ...

Benedetta Barzini in a scene from The Disappearance of My Mother, dir. Beniamino Barrese (all images courtesy Kino Lorber) A woman walks alone in the woods, lowers her pants, and squats. A spindly ...

“I have always labored under the illusion, but I also think it was true, that nobody ever photographed me. Because my face is not for sale,” Barzini says in the documentary, flashing a sly smile ...

Beniamino Barrese and Benedetta Barzini in a scene from The Disappearance of My Mother. Credit: Courtesy Kino Lorber In the 1960s, Benedetta Barzini was photographed by Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, ...

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 photographed ...

Italian filmmaker Beniamino Barrese's 'The Disappearance of My Mother' is an alternately tender and tempestuous doc about feminist fashion model Benedetta Barzini. By Keith Uhlich Being a parent means ...