Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958-1987

Richard B. Woodward, 2022
Hardcover 408 pages
Publisher: Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8365-6938-5
Dimensions: 22.9 x 28.9 cm

Before there was Instagram, there was Warhol.

 

Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book reveals hundreds of instant pictures by the artist.

 

Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself. Created in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation, this book features hundreds of these instant photos.

 
Portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Nicholson, Yves Saint Laurent, Pelé, Debbie Harry are included alongside images of Warhol’s entourage and high life, landscapes, nudes and still lifes. Often raw and impromptu, the Polaroids document Warhol’s era like Instagram captures our own, offering a unique record of the life, world, and vision behind the Pop Art maestro and modernist giant.
 
© The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Hardcover
Andy Warhol: Polaroids 1958-1987
£ 40.00