“Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” Exhibition
THIS IS SOMETHING TO SEE
There is something about the immediacy and rawness of Polaroid images that makes them incredibly intimate and powerful. Andy Warhol understood this better than anyone which is why his Polaroid Big Shot became his favourite tool for capturing the world around him. A new exhibition “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” celebrates this. Featuring nearly 250 Polaroids and 75 black and white prints of the images taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, plus some of his films from the 1960s, in addition to thousands of other Polaroids featuring celebrity confidantes such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Truman Capote, Dorothy Hamill, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Jack Nicklaus and former Cars vocalist Rick Ocasek, which he used as studies for his silkscreen paintings.
8 Comments
Leave A CommentLeave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Many people don’t know that Basquait was Haitian. Man I’m trying to put my folks on the map. JD let’s do a doc bout your life in music,and things that inspire you, and let ppl c how you helped change this culture. Holla.
IM NOT GONE LIE IT’S HOT!
No LIE. At First glance I thought he was Tracy Morgan with loads of hair. But All of these are nice pictures, Especially the last two. They are giving us mad face!
THREW ME OFF 4 A MINUTE BUT NOW I’M BACK…AFTER READING THA ARTICLE IT MADE ME UNDERSTAND IT MORE, YOU PROBABLY COULDN’T GET MOST CELEBS NOWADAYS TO POSE W/O MAKE-UP. I THINK HE DID A GOOD JOB..
feeling that Basquiat
Put some Grace … In Yo Face! Now, I am going to watch my Boomerang DVD. HOLLLA !!!!
timeless.
The hair on the guy in the photo reminds me of Janet (Got til it’s gone) velvet rope era.