01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 12

Sante D’Orazio
Patricia Velasquez, c. 2004
Photography
47 1/2 × 57 1/2 in; 120.7 × 146.1 cm
Private collection


Patricia Carola Velásquez Semprún (born 31 January 1971) is a Venezuelan actress and model.

In 1989, she participated in the Miss Venezuela 1989, where she placed as 2nd runner-up. After 3 years of Engineering college studies, Velásquez left for Milan, Italy, in pursuit of a modelling career.

From 1995 to 2000 she studied acting in Los Angeles and New York. She paced down runways in ready-to-wear fashions. This led to a large number of further modeling engagements, which ultimately culminated in her being ranked No. 45 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2001 and No. 16 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" poll in 2002.

Velasquez was appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace (Good will Ambassador) in June 2003, in the context of the International Decade for the World’s Indigenous People. She received the “Women Together” award at the United Nations on 2009. In 2015, LA Femme Film festival gave Velasquez their Humanitarian Award. On August 30th 2018 the Organization of American States (OAS) appointed Velasquez as Goodwill Ambassador for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. More on Patricia Velásquez

Sante D'Orazio is an American photographer.

Sante D’Orazio typified an era. From the moment Andy Warhol gave the Brooklyn-born photographer his first job, D’Orazio became somewhat of a poster-child for the hedonistic fashion world of the late 1980s and early 1990s. D’Orazio was part of a generation of photographers whose highly stylised, hyper-sensual imagery captured the pulse of their bullish time. 

In the early 1990s, when photographers like Corinne Day ushered in the grunge era in magazines and advertising campaigns, Sante D’Orazio found demand for his glossy work in Hollywood, where he shot the likes of Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Keith Richards. “My pictures were more sensual and glamorous and the whole grunge movement and all that was just not my cup of tea. That is what dissuaded me from continuing to work in the fashion field because I just didn’t see women that way.” More on Sante D'Orazio



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