Sante D'Orazio
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Sante D'Orazio (born January 23, 1956) in Brooklyn, New York, studied painting and fine arts at Brooklyn College. He worked as assistant to Phillip Pearlstein. During those same years, he also studied photography with Lou Bernstein, a member of The New York Photo League. He began his professional career in 1981 with Italian Vogue and later at Andy Warhol's Interview and was soon working for the world’s leading fashion magazines and commercial clients. D’Orazio presented an alluring combination of sex and celebrity: a world populated by beautiful Supermodels (in various stages of undress), megawatt actresses like Angelina Jolie or Sharon Stone casually lounging on a sofa or by the sea, shirtless rock stars like Axl Rose and hyperbolic bombshells like Pamela Anderson. Through D’Orazio’s lens, modern celebrities became mythological beings, reflecting the values of our idol -obsessed times: Eternal Youth. Naked Beauty. Rock ‘n’ Roll. In a career spanning over twenty years, D’Orazio documented The Glamorous Life — always with a wink from behind the camera — for some of the world’s greatest publications, beginning with Italian Vogue in 1981 and including Interview, Vanity Fair, GQ, French, British and German Vogue.
D'Orazio has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally, including the Kunsthaus Munich, Kunsthauswien Vienna, the L.A. County Museum, Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Cameraworks Gallery (Berlin) Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexico City) and NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. His publications include: A Private View (Penguin Books, 1998), Sante D'Orazio Photographs (Arena Editions, 2002) Pam: American Icon (Schirmer/Mosel, 2007), Katlick School (TeNeues 2006), Gianni and Donatella (TeNeues, 2007) and Barely Private (Taschen 2009.)
Books
- A Private View
Published by Penguin Books. A Book of Sante D'Orazio's Photographs and diary pages that cover his career as a photographer. 1998. ISBN 3-8296-0247-2
- Sante D'Orazio Photographs
PUBLISHED BY ARENA EDITIONS. A BOOK OF IMAGES FROM SANTE D’ORAZIO’S PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL ARCHIVES. 2000. ISBN
- PAM: AMERICAN ICON. A CATALOGUE OF PAMELA ANDERSON IMAGES, WITH TEXT BY RICHARD PRINCE, JEFF KOONS, GLENN O’BRIEN.2005. ISBN 978-2-930487-06-9
- Katlick School. Published by teNeues. 2006.
- Gianni and Donatella Published by teNeues 2007.
- BARELY PRIVATE A DIARY BOOK 1997-PRESENT, PUBLISHED BY TASCHEN, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8365-1460-6
Exhibitions
- 2010 Scratch This, Hiliario Galuera Gallery, Leipzig, Germany (solo) In Dialogue, Anonymous Gallery/Collective Hardware, New York, NY (catalog).
- 2009 Barely Private, Milk Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Scratch This / A Film, Paradise Row Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London.
- 2008 Pam: American Icon, Alain Noirhomme Galerie, Belgium Double Cross, NRW Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany Gianni and Donatella, Orvieto, Italy Untitled,
Hilario Gaguera Gallery, San Rafael, Mexico.
- 2007 Katlick School, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2006 Retrospective, Kunsthausewien, Vienna, Austria.
- 2005 Pamela Anderson: Icon, Kunstaus, Munich, Germany Pamela Andersion: Icon, Stellan Holm Gal- lery, New York, NY.
- 2004 Pixels, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY.
- 2003 Rolling Stones, Cameraworks Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
