Sante D'Orazio
Sante D'Orazio (born January 23, 1956) is an American photographer. D'Orazio exhibited in the Kunsthaus Munich, Kunsthauswien Vienna, the L.A. County Museum, Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam), Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Cameraworks Gallery (Berlin) Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexico City), and NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. His publications include: A Private View, Sante D'Orazio Photographs, Pam: American Icon, Katlick School, Gianni and Donatella, and Barely Private.
Also recorded as Sante d' Orazio · Santé D'Orazio
Sante D'Orazio
Thomas Steiner · photo taken in Vienna, Austria with my Nokia Mobile phone 6280. · CC BY-SA 2.5
- Name
- Sante D'Orazio
- Born
- January 23, 1956
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
- Occupation
- Photographer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Brooklyn College
- Languages
- Italian
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Sante D'Orazio (born January 23, 1956) is an American photographer. D'Orazio exhibited in the Kunsthaus Munich, Kunsthauswien Vienna, the L.A. County Museum, Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam), Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Cameraworks Gallery (Berlin) Hilario Galguera Gallery (Mexico City), and NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. His publications include: A Private View, Sante D'Orazio Photographs, Pam: American Icon, Katlick School, Gianni and Donatella, and Barely Private.
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Sante D'Orazio (born 1956) is a photographer, of American nationality. The photographer was born in Brooklyn. Sante D'Orazio was educated at Brooklyn College. Languages used include Italian.
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• Name — Sante D'Orazio • Born — January 23, 1956 • Birthplace — Brooklyn, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Photographer • Website — santedorazio.com
Exhibitions
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 Pam: American Icon, 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.
Personal life
Personal life
D'Orazio was married to fashion model Kara Young from 1994 to 1998. They had one son together, Nickola, also a photographer.
Quotes
Quotes
"Everybody has a different approach to it, but I always tell people: learn how to stop thinking. Once you start thinking with the camera in your hand, you’ve lost the picture. If you had time to think, the picture’s gone." – Sante D'Orazio, In a 2023 interview with The Trops
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the headings Sante d' Orazio and Santé D'Orazio. His recorded language was Italian. He married Kara Young.
Photographer Sante D'Orazio in front of an own work at an exebition in Vienna (Kunsthaus)/Austria in oct 2006
Thomas Steiner · photo taken in Vienna, Austria with my Nokia Mobile phone 6280.
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Life and career
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1956
Sante D'Orazio born at Brooklyn.
Books
• A Private View. Penguin Books, 1998.. Photographs and diary pages covering his photography career. • Sante D'Orazio Photographs. Arena Editions, 2000. Photographs from his professional and personal work. • Pam: American Icon. Schirmer/Mosel, 2005.. Photographs of Pamela Anderson • Katlick School. teNeues, 2006. • Gianni and Donatella. teNeues, 2007. • Barely Private - A Diary Book 1997-Present. Taschen, 2009.
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- 1.Pam Anderson, Catalogue and exhibition, Gallery Alain Noirhomme, p. 45.
- 2.Who's That Girl? - Nymag. July 27, 1998.
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