Oliviero Toscani (born 1942 in Milan) is an Italian photographer,[1] best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brandBenetton,[2] from 1982 to 2000. Toscani took up photography following the steps of his father, Fedele Toscani, who used to be a photoreporter for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. After obtaining his diploma at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich, he started working with different magazines, including Elle, Vogue, L'Uomo Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. In 1982 he started working as Art Director for the Benetton Group....http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero_Toscani
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