BIOGRAPHY

Priscilla Rattazzi was born in Rome, Italy and came to the US in 1974. She studied photography at Sarah Lawrence College and later worked as an assistant to photographer Hiro.

Throughout the late eighties, she worked as a fashion and portrait photographer. Her work appeared in magazines such as New York, Redbook, Self, Brides and The New York Times Magazine. In Italy, her work appeared in Vogue Italia, Donna and Amica.

Priscilla Rattazzi has published three books and one portfolio: Best Friends (Rizzoli, 1998), a collection of photographs of people and their dogs; Children (Rizzoli, 1992), a collection of photographs of children in early childhood; Georgica Pond (Callaway, 2000), a ten-year examination of a body of water on the East End of Long Island. Best Friends, the portfolio (Luna Lola Press, 2006), is a collection of fourteen of Priscilla's favorites portraits largely chosen from the original book Best Friends.

There have been eight exhibitions of her work: a show in conjunction with the publication of her book Best Friends (1989) at the Staley Wise Gallery in New York; a retrospective at the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tennessee (1992); a one-woman show at the Glenn Horowitz Bookseller's in East Hampton, New York (2003); a series of portraits of actors, producers and directors for the Tribeca Film Festival at the Jack Banning Gallery in New York (2003); a retrospective at the Valentina Moncada Gallery in Rome, Italy (2004); a show of mostly new work at East End Books and Gallery in East Hampton, New York (2006); an evening at Staley-Wise Gallery in New York to present the Best Friends portfolio (2006); and a one-woman show at the Paul Fisher Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida (2008).

She is currently working on a new book about her dogs, Luna and Lola.