Walter Pfeiffer, the cult photographer of beauty, sex and outsiders
As a major retrospective of his work opens in Turin, the Swiss image-maker reflects on magazines, finding success as an ‘outsider’, and why he’s still working at 80

When it opened in 1926, the Lingotto was the largest car factory in the world. Located in the industrial south of Turin, it produced Fiat cars along a vertical production line that wound its way up five concrete floors, culminating in a rooftop racetrack several kilometres long, with steep parabolic curves used to test the finished vehicles. Though hailed by visionaries such as Le Corbusier as a masterpiece of industrial architecture, by the 1980s it had become obsolete and was at risk ofhellip;
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