A red veil, delicate yet deliberate, slips across the face of a young woman. Her gaze is not fully revealed , only one eye emerges, luminous and unguarded. It’s a moment suspended between intimacy and distance, where beauty doesn't expose itself entirely, but invites us in slowly, like a secret shared in silence.
Tiziano Magni’s photograph One Eye Close to See captures that fleeting tension between concealment and revelation. The title itself is a subtle paradox, why close an eye to see? And yet, in this inversion, Magni seems to suggest that seeing is not about the obvious or the whole. It is in what remains hidden, in what we almost perceive, that true meaning begins to unfold.
This powerful image will be the next release in the Corriere Art Collection, available from Tuesday, July 15, both in print (equipped with QR code) and as a certified digital collectible edition. It is an invitation not only to observe, but to dwell in the act of looking, to embrace the poetic ambiguity that photography, at its most profound, can offer.
Born in Milan in 1955 and now based in New York, Tiziano Magni is one of the most celebrated fashion photographers of his generation. Over the decades, he has crafted iconic campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Dior, Chanel, and Hermès, his lens shaping the aesthetics of global fashion with intelligence, elegance, and emotional clarity. But Magni’s artistic journey goes far beyond commercial work. His images often mysterious, sensual, and rigorously composed, are imbued with narrative tension and psychological nuance.
Magni’s visual language lives at the intersection of cinema, surrealism, and visual poetry. His photography becomes a space of encounter between control and spontaneity, between what is staged and what is emotionally true. In One Eye Close to See, the model becomes less a subject than a presence: an embodiment of the subconscious, a modern echo of classical portraiture, reinterpreted through the codes of fashion and fine art.
As Gianluigi Colin, artistic director of Corriere della Sera, notes:
“Magni’s work doesn’t impose itself. It seduces through stillness, through the tension of what is not said. He’s an image-maker who understands that mystery can be more powerful than clarity.”
This is not photography as decoration, it is photography as reflection. Inspired by the surrealist legacy of artists like René Magritte, who wrote that “Dreams do not exist to make us sleep, but to awaken us,” Magni’s work insists on the importance of uncertainty. Of pausing. Of looking again.
With One Eye Close to See, Magni offers us not just a picture, but a gesture. A gesture toward the invisible and toward a deeper way of seeing.