Photo Finish

Celebrity fashion photographer Francesco Scavullo died Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. Working for nearly every major women's magazine over the last three decades, Scavullo helped feed America's obsession with impossible physical perfection, especially through his cover photos for Cosmopolitan. Among the "talent" he discovered in his career were Rene Russo, Farrah Fawcett and Brooke Shields. In 1981 he suffered his fourth nervous breakdown, as the life of taking pictures of gorgeous women and celebrities became too much to bear.