{"id":1830920,"date":"2026-03-17T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830920"},"modified":"2026-03-17T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:14:00","slug":"brianna-capozzi-on-her-distinct-eroticism-with-a-bizarre-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1830920","title":{"rendered":"Brianna Capozzi on her distinct eroticism with a \u2018bizarre twist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1200\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441517.jpeg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"main-article standard \">\n<div class=\"article-main-content article-wrapper has-media-but-its-an-image\" data-status=\"loaded\" data-primary-article=\"true\" data-url=\"\/art-photography\/article\/69920\/1\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer-photo-book-rizzoli-chloe-sevigny-miley-cyrus\" data-article-id=\"69920\">\n<header class=\"article-header has-landscape-image no-media\">\n<div class=\"wrapper dg-max-width\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<figure class=\"main-img has-figcaption\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"1.39\" data-template=\"Standard Article\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"2151\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/1400\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441517.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 Womanizer by Brianna Capozzi, <span class=\"nowrap\">Rizzoli, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"inner\"><time datetime=\"2026-03-17T12:14:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"titles\">\n<div class=\"tags\">\n<div class=\"sections\"><a class=\"category vertical - art-photography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a><br \/>\n\/<br \/>\n<a class=\"series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lightbox\">Lightbox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"standard-tag-container\"><a class=\"standard-category\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\">Art &amp; Photography<\/a> \/<br \/>\n<a class=\"standard-series\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/lightbox\">Lightbox<\/a><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"title\"><span>Brianna Capozzi on her distinct eroticism with a <span class=\"nowrap\">\u2018bizarre twist\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"standfirst\">\n<h2>\u2018I love being sexy and I love making sexy work\u2019: The acclaimed photographer shares the story behind Womanizer, her new photo book which brings together a decade of extraordinary portraits <span class=\"nowrap\">of women<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-17T12:14:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-03-17T12:14:00+00:00\" class=\"timestamp\" title=\"17 March 2026\"><span class=\"month\">March<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"day\" data-day=\"17\">17,<\/span>\u00a0<br \/>\n<span class=\"year\">2026<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"providers\">\n<div class=\"contributors\"><span class=\"contributor\" data-contributor-role=\"Text\"><span class=\"contributor-role\">Text<\/span><a class=\"contributor-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/user\/EmilyDinsdale\">Emily Dinsdale<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article-body-container\">\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-7-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/0\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1342\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2013-1342\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441516.jpeg\" width=\"2013\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/1\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-555-2002-1334\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" width=\"2002\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/2\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441517.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/3\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1849\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2773-1849\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441518.jpeg\" width=\"2773\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/4\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1454\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2181-1454\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441755.png\" width=\"2181\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/5\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1310\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-900-1965-1310\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441754.jpg\" width=\"1965\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 7 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/brianna-capozzi\">Brianna Capozzi<\/a> has sent me a list of what fascinates her as an artist. It reads, \u201cNew 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.\u201d She elaborates, \u201cWomen 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her new book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rizzoliusa.com\/book\/9780847876433\/\"><em><span>Womanizer<\/span><\/em><\/a><span>(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. \u201cThis book means so much to me. It\u2019s 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,\u201d she explains. \u201cWomen 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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\u2019s agile \u2013 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"d5f1909b-25fb-4879-9690-ab5900e5f2ee\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1280\/4\/1284766.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.76\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Selena Gomez \u2013 spring 2020 cover\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1280\/4\/1284766.jpg\" width=\"2270\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Selena wears all clothes and jewellery Chanel, Disney Minnie Mouse gloves <span class=\"nowrap\">stylist\u2019s own<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Brianna Capozzi, Styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Emma Wyman<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>From her memorable Dazed cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/selena-gomez\">Selena Gomez<\/a> in oversized Mickey Mouse gloves to her famous portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow looking sultry with a huge spanner, Capozzi has an eye for the absurd, yet her pictures always throb with sex appeal. In the book\u2019s foreword, Chlo\u00eb <\/span><span>Sevigny \u2013\u00a0who appears multiple times throughout <\/span><em><span>Womanizer <\/span><\/em><span>\u2013\u00a0recalls her first shoot with the New Jersey-born photographer. It took place in an abandoned house across the road from Capozzi\u2019s parents\u2019 place \u2013\u00a0an interior decor time capsule of floor-to-ceiling mirrors and carved lion heads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Sevigny, the ambitious plan involved various wigs and a lobster, which Capozzi used as makeshift underwear. The image of Sevigny reclining over the kitchen counter and wearing little more than a strategically-positioned lobster (later eaten by the photographer\u2018s parents for dinner), perfectly encapsulates the surreal sensuality of Capozzi\u2019s work. <\/span><span>\u201cI love being sexy and I love making sexy work,\u201d she explains. \u201cI have always been obsessed with the glamours of life as a woman and the female body, and with hair and make up \u2013 starting with my own \u2013 and how it can portray different parts of me. My eroticism stems from these obsessions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"7b8b79fe-271d-4973-81b2-b40b01773154\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" width=\"2005\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Aker Ajak, Los <span class=\"nowrap\">Angeles, 2025<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 Womanizer by Brianna Capozzi, <span class=\"nowrap\">Rizzoli, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Props are a huge part of what makes her images so distinctive. \u201cI love the combo of reality and fantasy, focusing on making images that are not overly produced. They lean into the bizarre but always hold on to an authenticity and rawness that I think grounds them,\u201d\u00a0she tells me. \u201cProps allow me to toe that line. The prop can be part of a larger storyline, or it can be random if I am drawn to the object without any deep meaning. The meaning always reveals itself once we incorporate it into the image.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is no one single muse or rigid template. Alongside Sevigny and Paltrow, <\/span><em><span>Womanizer<\/span><\/em><span> features an array of high-profile faces, including <\/span><span>Kim Kardashian, Emily Ratajkowski, Miley Cyrus, Bella Hadid and Pamela Anderson, as well as <\/span><span>Capozzi\u2019s family and friends from her New York milieu. But they each bear the hallmarks of her amorphous muse, who Capozzi describes as possessing \u201ca fearlessness to be different and a belief in themselves and their choices. [It&#8217;s] someone who doesn\u2019t take themselves too seriously and who is thinking about what they want, not what other people\u2019s opinions are.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unlike some of the photographers who grandly and erroneously claim the guiding principle of their work is to \u201cdismantle the male gaze\u201d, Capozzi&#8217;s work is truly brilliant in that it just doesn\u2019t seem to give a shit about the male gaze. At times, she may appropriate traditional glamour photography, but there will always be some Capozzi-esque element that undermines those conventions and brings it back to glorifying the women she\u2018s photographing. Capozzi\u2019s women are never passive, and they couldn\u2019t care less whose gaze may or may not dare to meet theirs. \u201cI always aim to hone in on someone\u2019s unique qualities. 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Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. You have been subscribed<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article-body wrapper\">\n<div class=\"dazed-gallery has-7-images \">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<header>\n<div class=\"info\"><span class=\"heading\">Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer<\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumbs\">\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/0\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1342\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2013-1342\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441516.jpeg\" width=\"2013\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/1\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-555-2002-1334\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" width=\"2002\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/2\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-3000-2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441517.jpeg\" width=\"3000\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/3\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1849\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2773-1849\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441518.jpeg\" width=\"2773\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/4\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1454\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-0-2181-1454\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441755.png\" width=\"2181\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-thumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/36839\/5\/brianna-capozzi-womanizer\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"landscape\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"1310\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/320\/0-900-1965-1310\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441754.jpg\" width=\"1965\"><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-footer\">Gallery \/ 7 images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/brianna-capozzi\">Brianna Capozzi<\/a> has sent me a list of what fascinates her as an artist. It reads, \u201cNew 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.\u201d She elaborates, \u201cWomen 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.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her new book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rizzoliusa.com\/book\/9780847876433\/\"><em><span>Womanizer<\/span><\/em><\/a><span>(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. \u201cThis book means so much to me. It\u2019s 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,\u201d she explains. \u201cWomen 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.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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\u2019s agile \u2013 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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"d5f1909b-25fb-4879-9690-ab5900e5f2ee\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1280\/4\/1284766.jpg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.76\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Selena Gomez \u2013 spring 2020 cover\" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1280\/4\/1284766.jpg\" width=\"2270\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Selena wears all clothes and jewellery Chanel, Disney Minnie Mouse gloves <span class=\"nowrap\">stylist\u2019s own<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photography Brianna Capozzi, Styling <span class=\"nowrap\">Emma Wyman<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>From her memorable Dazed cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/selena-gomez\">Selena Gomez<\/a> in oversized Mickey Mouse gloves to her famous portrait of Gwyneth Paltrow looking sultry with a huge spanner, Capozzi has an eye for the absurd, yet her pictures always throb with sex appeal. In the book\u2019s foreword, Chlo\u00eb <\/span><span>Sevigny \u2013\u00a0who appears multiple times throughout <\/span><em><span>Womanizer <\/span><\/em><span>\u2013\u00a0recalls her first shoot with the New Jersey-born photographer. It took place in an abandoned house across the road from Capozzi\u2019s parents\u2019 place \u2013\u00a0an interior decor time capsule of floor-to-ceiling mirrors and carved lion heads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Sevigny, the ambitious plan involved various wigs and a lobster, which Capozzi used as makeshift underwear. The image of Sevigny reclining over the kitchen counter and wearing little more than a strategically-positioned lobster (later eaten by the photographer\u2018s parents for dinner), perfectly encapsulates the surreal sensuality of Capozzi\u2019s work. <\/span><span>\u201cI love being sexy and I love making sexy work,\u201d she explains. \u201cI have always been obsessed with the glamours of life as a woman and the female body, and with hair and make up \u2013 starting with my own \u2013 and how it can portray different parts of me. My eroticism stems from these obsessions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"inline-img expandable dev-view-hide\" data-img=\"7b8b79fe-271d-4973-81b2-b40b01773154\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/2000\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" data-img-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\" data-img-aspect-ratio=\"0.67\"><span class=\"has-css-custom-props image-container\" data-aspect-ratio-type=\"portrait\"><span class=\"preserve-aspect-ratio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Brianna Capozzi, Womanizer \" class=\"img\" height=\"3000\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.dazeddigital.com\/786\/azure\/dazed-prod\/1440\/1\/1441522.jpeg\" width=\"2005\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"img-caption\"><span class=\"caption\">Aker Ajak, Los <span class=\"nowrap\">Angeles, 2025<\/span><\/span><span class=\"credit\">\u00a9 Womanizer by Brianna Capozzi, <span class=\"nowrap\">Rizzoli, 2026<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"embed-content\" data-embed-type=\"raw-html\">\n<p><span>Props are a huge part of what makes her images so distinctive. \u201cI love the combo of reality and fantasy, focusing on making images that are not overly produced. They lean into the bizarre but always hold on to an authenticity and rawness that I think grounds them,\u201d\u00a0she tells me. \u201cProps allow me to toe that line. The prop can be part of a larger storyline, or it can be random if I am drawn to the object without any deep meaning. The meaning always reveals itself once we incorporate it into the image.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There is no one single muse or rigid template. Alongside Sevigny and Paltrow, <\/span><em><span>Womanizer<\/span><\/em><span> features an array of high-profile faces, including <\/span><span>Kim Kardashian, Emily Ratajkowski, Miley Cyrus, Bella Hadid and Pamela Anderson, as well as <\/span><span>Capozzi\u2019s family and friends from her New York milieu. But they each bear the hallmarks of her amorphous muse, who Capozzi describes as possessing \u201ca fearlessness to be different and a belief in themselves and their choices. [It&#8217;s] someone who doesn\u2019t take themselves too seriously and who is thinking about what they want, not what other people\u2019s opinions are.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Unlike some of the photographers who grandly and erroneously claim the guiding principle of their work is to \u201cdismantle the male gaze\u201d, Capozzi&#8217;s work is truly brilliant in that it just doesn\u2019t seem to give a shit about the male gaze. At times, she may appropriate traditional glamour photography, but there will always be some Capozzi-esque element that undermines those conventions and brings it back to glorifying the women she\u2018s photographing. Capozzi\u2019s women are never passive, and they couldn\u2019t care less whose gaze may or may not dare to meet theirs. \u201cI always aim to hone in on someone\u2019s unique qualities. I see their strengths and allow them a space to be fully confident and stand in their power,\u201d she reflects. \u201cI always want to uplift women and portray them as the forces they truly are with my own bizarre twist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Womanizer <em>by Brianna Capozzi is published by Rizolli and is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rizzoliusa.com\/book\/9780847876433\/\">here<\/a> now.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"newsletter-inline-last\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-small\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<h1 class=\"newsletter-title\">Escape the algorithm! Get The Drop<\/h1>\n<div class=\"meta-row\">\n<p class=\"meta\">Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/privacy-policy\" class=\"meta-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\nPrivacy policy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"confirmation\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p class=\"confirmation-title\">Thank you. 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