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Oliviero Toscani

1942 - Today

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Oliviero Toscani (born 28 February 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oliviero Toscani has received more than 201,825 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Oliviero Toscani is the 45th most popular photographer (up from 46th in 2019), the 2,378th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,262nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Oliviero Toscanis by language

Over the past year Oliviero Toscani has had the most page views in the with 47,368 views, followed by English (17,619), and German (7,624). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (101.28%), Galician (66.67%), and Slovenian (66.36%)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Oliviero Toscani ranks 45 out of 148. Before him are Andreas Gursky, Philippe Halsman, Astrid Kirchherr, Carl Van Vechten, Paul Strand, and Josef Sudek. After him are Hippolyte Bayard, Herb Ritts, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, Patrick Demarchelier, Daidō Moriyama, and Cecil Beaton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Oliviero Toscani ranks 219. Before him are Derek Jarman, Oscar Bonavena, Curtis Mayfield, Heidi Brühl, Takao Nishiyama, and Gabriele Veneziano. After him are Sandra Dee, Christine Keeler, Eliso Virsaladze, Chris Sarandon, Marco Rota, and Brian Kernighan.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Oliviero Toscani ranks 2,378 out of 5,161. Before him are Tommaso da Modena (1326), Beatrice d'Este, Queen of Hungary (1215), Nicola Di Bari (1940), Leonardo Del Vecchio (1935), Antonio Bazzini (1818), and Aulus Caecina Alienus (50). After him are Marco Barbarigo (1413), Dagobert of Pisa (1100), Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821), Mino Raiola (1967), Lucius Flavius Silva (40), and Lorenzo Tiepolo (1300).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Italy

Among photographers born in Italy, Oliviero Toscani ranks 2. Before him are Felice Beato (1832). After him are Adolfo Farsari (1841), and Paolo Monti (1908).

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