SANTE D`ORAZIO
PHOTOGRAPHS

12. October 2006 - 25.February 2007, daily 10.00 – 19.00 hrs

Sante, fashion photographer, American-Italian.

More Italian than American. Unafraid of excessive, complacent prettiness. Catholic celebration of the flesh. Still, the ripeness of a very red cherry shall imply a melancholic acknowledgement of fragility. Sante´s acceptance of his subjects´ good looks is without apology, faithful as he is to the essence of photography as vanitas, a ghostly reminder that the sole beauty we know is fleeting beauty.

Sante, a friend, a photographer, no explanation really needed. Restless, unpretentious, photographs are entertainment too, to catch the moment. The picture will compose itself, speak for itself.

Francesco Clemente
From : Foreword, „A Private View“, 1998

For the first time in Austria: a retrospective of the superstar Sante D’Orazio, born 1956 in Brooklyn, New York; pioneer icon-maker and meanwhile an icon of the international fashion photography himself.

The exhibition shows 160 color- and black-and-white photographs of the period between 1986 and today.

A catalogue on the exhibition will be available at the KunstHausWien MuseumShop.

Press presentation: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 – 10.30 hrs (only with invitation!!)
Exhibition opening: Wednesday, 11 October 2006 – 19.00 hrs (only with invitation!!)

For further information and photo material please contact:
Sabine Schmeller, Verena Schrom
KunstHausWien Pressestelle:
Tel. 0043/1/712 04 95-14, Fax 0043/1/712 04 96
e-mail: sabine.schmeller@kunsthauswien.com, verena.schrom@kunsthauswien.com