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

Walter Pfeiffer, the cult photographer of beauty, sex and outsiders
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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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