collettivo culturale tuttomondo Andy Warhol
Polaroid d’ autore – Andy Warhol
Con la sua Polaroid SX-70 ha fotografato amici, celebrità e conoscenti, dando vita ad un diario visivo che vede come protagonisti le icone della scena culturale americana anni ’70-’80.
Parliamo di Andy Warhol naturalmente, il re della pop art che, ben prima dell’arrivo degli smartphone, fece della fotografia istantanea lo strumento per raccontare e conservare la sua vita e i suoi ricordi.
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foto: Andy Warhol, Liza Minelli 1977
From the early 1970s until his death in 1987 the instant camera became Warhol’s main instrument: The Big Shot camera, acquired by the artist in 1971, was a simple »tool« with an integrated flash, an impeccable viewfinder-mechanism and a standard brightness controller.
The fixed focal distance of one meter was ideal for the egalitarian mise-en-scène of the physiognomy of faces.
That is how the well-known portraits of artists, actors, friends of the eccentric Factory entourage, revellers of the studio 54 and a countless number of clients, who wanted their silkscreen portrait made by Andy Warhol, came into existence.