WARHOL, Andy - Polaroids. 1958-1987

"A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.” (Andy WARHOL)

Background information

"Andy WARHOL was a tireless chronicler of life and its encounters. From the late 1960s until his death in 1987, he carried a Polaroid camera with him virtually at every turn, amassing a massive collection of instant images of friends, lovers, patrons, celebrities, strangers, landscapes, the fashionable, and himself.

Content

This book, produced in collaboration with the Andy WARHOL Foundation, contains hundreds of these instant images, many of which have never before been published. Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are featured, as well as photos of his entourage and high life, landscape photographs, and still lifes ranging from Cabbage Patch Dolls to his signature soup cans.  His Polaroid shots, often spontaneous and unembellished, document his era as Instagram captures ours. This collection from the unofficial court photographer of New York's upper and lower classes is an indispensable chronicle of Andy WARHOL's life and work, world and worldview." (© Taschen, 2015)

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