Picture of Gia Carangi

Sondra Scerca:
“I took this shot in February 1978 in a studio dressing room a few floors above Wilhelmina’s agency. Willy had arranged for Maurice Tannenbaum to use several of her neophyte models to shoot pictures for theirs and Gia’s book. It was Gia’s first shoot in New York.
Gia was extremely nervous to shoot with professional models and was convinced that they didn’t like her. To help ease her fears, I suggested we take a few shots and encouraged her to look in the mirror and see that she was their equal - or better.
As she leaned into the mirror, at that moment, I saw and captured the face that would impact world of modeling forever.”