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Dec 6, 2008

His pencil and paper



The Year in Pictures is a photography blog that is filled with very interesting and analytical
posts about photography. I came about the blog through The Sartorialist and found
James Danziger
blog. As I went through months of posts, ranging from different themes
and points of view, I came across some Polaroids. In some, minimalism and simplicity
are boarding in the line of saying nothing, which I love. To my surprise this are Polaroids
taken by Andy Warhol. I've had my share of hours looking through Warhol's book,
documentaries, films and classes, but never really seen this pictures from him.


I could t help myself to copy the entire post because I couldn't have said this better myself:

"For much of his life, Andy Warhol was obsessed with photography. He bought it, borrowed it, and banged it out with regularity. Along with his many obsessions, he collected cameras, but there is no doubt that his favorite was the Polaroid Big Shot Camera which he used to photograph his commissioned portraits. (The photographs were then transferred to canvas where Warhol and/or his assistants would paint over and under the image.) While now out of production the camera is still readily available for about $20 - $30, in fact there are currently 8 for sale on Ebay. Warhol called the camera “his pencil and paper”.

While Warhol’s Big Shots portraits are justly famous, less known are the everyday photographs of objects he took between 1977 and 1983. Starting next week, however, the Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea will be exhibiting 70 of these Polaroids for the first time. Still lives of bananas, knives, and crosses, and assemblages of shoes and other commercial products, the photographs are interesting not only for the objects Warhol chose to picture and the deadpan style with which he photographed them, but for the underlying themes of desire and mortality that run through the work and the prescient symbolism. Most significantly, though, the pictures show that it’s not the equipment that counts, but – as always - the ideas behind the work."

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