Jean Pagliuso was born in Southern California in 1941 and graduated from the UCLA College of Fine Arts in 1963. Moving to New York, she worked as assistant art director at Conde Nast in NY, then moved back to California where she began a life-long career in photography. In her forty-plus year career spanning both California and New York, she was published in Mademoiselle, HG, Vogue, NY Magazine, Italian Harper Bazaar, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, New York Times Magazine “Fashion of the Times”, Italian Vogue, and Interview Magazine. In addition to her work in fashion, she photographed movie posters most notably for White Palace, American Gigolo, Splash Dillinger, Thieves like Us, Three Women, and Nashville. Working with the director Robert Altman changed her life.

In 1997, Pagliuso’s attention turned to places of ritual and the endangered environments of Egypt, Mali, Peru India and Burma and the Southwest. Her rice paper photographic prints were exhibited at Marlborough Gallery in NY, Madrid and Monaco, Mary Ryan Gallery and the Drawing Room in East Hampton. From landscapes she went back to her roots and began making strictly formalized portraits of birds entitled The Poultry Suite.

Selected Press

• The Brooklyn Rail

• The Wall Street Journal

• The New York Times

• Bomb Magazine

• The New York Times

• Huffington Post

• Slate Magazine

• Vogue Magazine

• Hyperallergic