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Title: A Private View: Photographs & Diary by Sante D'Orazio, David Fahey, Francesco Clemente ISBN: 0-670-88251-8 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (34 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Spontaneous, fun glamour photography; creative presentation
Comment: Actors, artists, models, musicians and athletes. Sante d'Orazio shot them all, and presents them here in a very clever collage of a photo diary spanning from 1985 to 1997. Mixed among the shots which made it to publication in the world's top fashion magazines is a wide array of attitude poses, candid moments, playful outtakes, and perhaps even a couple of photographic bloopers. What draws me to this book is the imagery of whirlwind travel, all-night parties, and romping photo sessions, contained in a just-thrown-together scrapbook fashion augmented by airplane tickets, foreign currency, watercolor painting and cryptic hand-written notes by the photographer himself. This guy leads a fun life, and has the pictures to prove it.
If you like models, you'll love this book, and d'Orazio's nude photos--some raw, some refined--are excellent. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether he snuck up on somebody, or if the setting was planned; nevertheless, it's all a blast. I'm intrigued by the picture of Kate Moss sitting sideways in an empty tub, smoking a cigarette and reading a book entitled "Help Your Husband Get Ahead."
The presentation of randomly-ordered contrasting moods--prim versus toussled, serene versus crazy, color versus black & white, staged versus candid--gives this book a variety that, to me, stays fresh and interesting. The b/w's outnumber the color shots, and are far better, in my opinion. I always appreciate a subject/date/locale photo index, which can be found in the back, although one must hunt through the thumbnail pix to find a specific shot because there are no page numbers anywhere. This book would be perfect if the format was slightly larger, and if the photos (i.e., events) were in chronological order, so as to catch the natural flow of a diary; however, these are only minor detractions. Keep flipping the pages . . . and enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Simply breathtaking...
Comment: I recently recieved my copy of this book from amazon and upon first opening the package was disappointed in the size of the book. While extremely thick I was hoping for a larger format for the photos to be presented in. With that very very minor gripe aside, let me begin to try and put into words how well done this collection of photos is.
Sante D'orazio has had the oppurtunity to photograph some of the most beautiful as well as intriguing people on the planet, and has managed to capture them in their most natural seeming states. Wether it is a picture of Drew Barrymore on a tricycle, or Robert Deniro enjoying a cigar, every photo in the book is wonderfully done with such a personality to every photo that as a photographer makes me yearn to someday approach his skill. Rare is it I find a book of photography that the entire book interests me, as I often find some portions I enjoy a lot and others that bore me to tears, but this is a magnificent collection all the way through. If you are a fan of photography at all, please do yourself a favor and order this book, you will find yourself leafing through it over and over again in the future I promise.
Rating: 5
Summary: JAY DAVIDSON FANS
Comment: D'Orazio's wonderful photo collection of the famous and not so famous is worth the price of the book just for the four pages devoted to the gender bending Jaye Davidson who has helped this gay reader accept and enjoy himself. Candid photo's of Christie and Naomi, Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Claudia Schiffer, John Travolta and on and on... give personal insights into celebities I have never encounterd in the fashion magazines or the tabloids. This collection is fun, revealing, and, at times, upsetting. And worth every penny.
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Title: Sante D'Orazio: Photographs by Sante D'Orazio, John Yau ISBN: 1892041308 Publisher: Arena Editions Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: 10 Women by Peter Lindbergh by Peter Lindbergh, Karl Lagerfeld ISBN: 3823814168 Publisher: te Neues Publishing Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Patrick DeMarchelier: Forms by Patrick Demarchelier ISBN: 0847821609 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Patrick Demarchelier : Photographs by Patrick Demarchelier ISBN: 0821225146 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Mario Testino: Portraits by Mario Testino ISBN: 0821227610 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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