Andy Warhol: Photo Factory
10 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Fotografiska New York
281 Park Avenue South
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A groundbreaking exhibition of rare and never-before-seen Andy Warhol photographs -- as well as some iconic favorites -- will be on view at Fotografiska New York from September 10 through January 23. With more than 120 works spanning Warhol’s career, Andy Warhol: Photo Factory spectacularly represents all six areas of Warhol’s film-based work, including rare variants of Polaroid photos of celebrities like Dolly Parton, Keith Haring, Debbie Harry, Jane Fonda, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and dozens more.
The 124-piece show offers an intimate visual diary of the artist’s life and work, with heavy documentation of his social circles and day-to-day life. The show also includes a number of rare photo studies integral to the conceptual development process for some of Warhol’s most famous silkscreen paintings.
Unlike past presentations of Warhol’s photos, Andy Warhol: Photo Factory goes uniquely in-depth across all six areas of film-based work. Highlights include, but are certainly not limited to:
Never-exhibited 1974 Polaroid studies from Warhol’s Ladies and Gentlemen series, depicting trans women and drag queens he paid to pose for him. The series is best known for the handful of photos that became subjects of Warhol’s exuberant silkscreens (like a portrait of civil rights icon Marsha P. Johnson), but 500 portraits were taken in total -- including of anonymous women whose portraits poignantly offer an intimate lens into their life and times.
Eight rare “stitched” photograph works -- hand-sewn by Warhol into quilt-like grids of 4, 6, or 12 images -- that mark the artist’s exploration with photo-based artwork in its own right, rather than for general documentation or as part of his study process for silkscreen paintings. These works include pieces made just months before his untimely death in 1987.
A 1985 photo of Keith Haring and Dolly Parton, with an accompanying written anecdote from Warhol.
A 1983 Polaroid of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s crotch.
Intimate 1980s photos of Keith Haring with his lover Juan Dubose.
Unique photos of Diana Vreeland (1982), Giorgio Armani (1981), Debbie Harry (1980 and 1985), Steven Spielberg (1982), Liberace (1984), Jane Fonda (1982), Diane von Furstenberg (1983), Carolina Herrera (1978), Gianni Versace (1980), Grace Jones (1984), Robert Mapplethorpe (1983), Farrah Fawcett (1979), John McEnroe (1986), Halston and Liza Minnelli (1981), Jack Nicholson (1978), Jean Paul Gaultier (1984), and others.
Learn more in the above-linked press release.
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