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Womanizer

Author Brianna Capozzi, Foreword by Chloë Sevigny

Commanding, uninhibited women captured through Capozzi’s provocative female lens.

Capozzi has spent the past decade shaping an attitude in fashion and contemporary portraiture of women. Her images unbind the female form from tradition and honor its erotic power. Her lawless compositions interlace celebrity, the mundane, the absurd, and the surreal. There is an erotic interplay between photographer and subject, with both sides playfully exchanging power. Vibrant photographs of contemporary female icons, including Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Bella Hadid, Pam Anderson, Dua Lipa, Chloë Sevigny, and Selena Gomez, along with less familiar faces from Capozzi’s New York circle of friends and muses, celebrate a feminine point of view and disrupt the legacy of the female form being depicted for the male gaze. Capozzi’s sophisticated camerawork weaves high fashion with saturated narratives, pop culture, her own handmade garments, and props. The images are enticing, glamorous, and unexpected.

About The Author

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, Re-Edition 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, and shot Miley Cyrus’s album cover, Endless Summer Vacation. Chloë Sevigny is an American actress, fashion designer, and style icon. She is known for her roles in independent films such as Kids and Boys Don’t Cry, the latter earning her an Academy Award nomination.

  • Publish Date: March 03, 2026
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Category: Photography - Individual Photographers - Monographs
  • Publisher: Rizzoli
  • Trim Size: 9 x 11
  • Pages: 176
  • US Price: $65.00
  • CDN Price: $85.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-8478-7643-3
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"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