WARHOL~Andy. Photography.*

€65,00

Author: Breitz, H.Butin, L.Derenthal, M.Francis, C.Heinrich, H.Hess, M.King, K.Schick~C.
Publisher: Edition Stemmle, Thalwil, Zürich, New York
Year: 1999
Artist: WARHOL~Andy
ISBN: 3-922909-41-8


First ed. 4to., 398 pp., numerous b&w and color illustrations. Illustrated paper over boards.
It features 110 color and 300 duotone illustrations, as well as eight historical and interpretive essays.
Condition: A few wrinkles in the paper cover on the rear. Near fine. references.

WARHOL AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography was central to Andy Warhol's art. Early in his career as a professional commercial artist, Warhol realized that the camera was usurping the role of hand-drawn illustration. In fact, he regularly used photographs drawn from the mass media as source material for his commercial assignments. This practice carried over into his art, and from the early 1960s onward Warhol almost completely abandoned the brush and pen in favor of the photo-silkscreen technique.

At the beginning of the 1960s, Warhol began using press and publicity photographs as the basis for some of his most enduring silkscreen paintings. Most of these source photographs were collected by Warhol himself from magazines, tabloid newspapers and photographic archives, with particular emphasis on such categories as celebrities, crime, sports, space, accidents and suicides. For his screenprint Electric Chair (1971), from the "Death in America" series, Warhol combed through the photo archives of the New York Public Library to find an image of the electric chair used to execute alleged atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Warhol employed the same process of appropriating and transforming images from popular culture to create his celebrated silkscreen portraits of Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline Onassis and Marilyn Monroe. He also used photobooth portrait strips in making silkscreen paintings, and regularly transformed his Polaroids and individual frames from his short films into paintings and prints. His own 35mm photographs served as the basis for a 1980s series of stitched photographs that feature multiple prints of a single image sewn together in a grid.

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