Donna Santisi

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Donna Santisi
Born
New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Known forPhotography
Website donnasantisiphotography.com

Donna Santisi is an American photographer. Her work has appeared in Slash , New York Rocker and Creem . [1]

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Career

Santisi first became interested in photography in college. [2] She saw Janis Joplin multiple times and the desire grew to document the experience. [3] Santisi received a BS in Business Administration from Rider University [4] but after experiencing the punk scene of Los Angeles Santisi devoted herself to photography. [4]

The first bands Santisi photographed were The Shangri-Las and The Young Rascals. [2]

Her seminal punk photography collection [4] documenting the LA new wave and punk rock scene, Ask The Angels, was published in 1978. [3] An expanded edition was published in 2010. [5]

Santisi shot the cover for The Cramps's album Psychedelic Jungle , [4] provided photography for the inner sleeves of The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads by Talking Heads [6] and Learning to Crawl by The Pretenders, [7] among other album covers and sleeve inserts. [1] Her photography was used for the cover of Kelly Johnson's biography Surviving My Friends: The Official Kelly Johnson Story. [8]

Santisi is predominately a nature photographer now. [3]

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