Early Life

Everybody has a talent and depending on their personality, some people will persue their talent into doing something with it. One person in particular who was very goal-oriented and knew what he wanted to do with his life was photographer Francesco Scavullo.

Born on January 16th, 1921 in Staten Island, New York United States, Scavullo had a passion for photography since he was a young child and he expressed this passion by using his father's camera in order to take pictures. It was said that he used his mother and his sisters as his models.

Sadly, his father did not support his son's interest in photography and his wanted his son to enter the restaurant business like him. He worked for his father as a busboy however, he tried messing up purposely in order to get fired.

Scavullo finally stopped working for his father because he had found a job in a photography studio where he was doing something he loved which was creating catalogs. While he was working at the photography studio, he applied to participate in a tryout run at Vogue in order to become an assistant for Horst. P. Horst.
It was very hard for his dad to accept his choice of career however, after working for many magazine covers and actually starting to become very famous, his father was proud of him and bought him a home in New York where he can use that space as not only his home but also his studio.

Source: http://nopoboho.blogspot.com/2012/01/born-on-this-day-january-16th-francesco.html

http://www.brazenhussies.com/Goodbye/FrancescoScavullo/scavullo.html