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	William Abranowicz
			ARTIST STATEMENT Currently on the masthead of both Conde Nast Traveler and House and Garden, Abranowicz� work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times Magazine,, Martha Stewart Living, and Le Monde d�Hermes. His advertising campaigns include Avon, Banana Republic, Eileen Fisher, Pottery Barn, Ralph Lauren, The Gap, Tommy Hilfiger, Giorgio Armani, Target, IBM, and Discover Card. William Abranowicz' work is included in public, corporate and private collections throughout the world including the National Collection of the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., The Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, The Menil Collection Library in Houston, Tx., Biblioth�que Nationale in Paris, the International Center of Photography in New York, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Goulandris Museum in Greece. Rizzoli International published his latest book, THE GREEK FILE, Images of a Mythic Land, a tribute to the landscapes of Greece. His next book, Elvis Presley�s Graceland is to be published next year. Abranowicz is a graduate of The School of Visual Arts in New York. He assisted Horst P. Horst and George Tice. As a freelance photographic printer, Abranowicz printed for the Estate of Edward Steichen, Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene and Michael Disfarmer. Abranowicz lives in Bedford, New York with his family, where he serves as a volunteer fireman (2003 Firefighter of the Year) and is an active member of Riverkeeper, a group dedicated to cleaning up the Hudson River.