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Bob Colacello

A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.
© 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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  • A work made of internal dye diffusion transfer print.

Date:

August 1973

Artist:

Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987

About this artwork

In the early 1970s, at the height of his fame, Andy Warhol began producing staged Polaroid portraits of celebrities, friends, and casual acquaintances, many of them studies for his commissioned silkscreen prints and paintings. His tool of choice was a Polaroid Big Shot, an instant film camera fitted with a fixed focal length that made it ideal for portraiture. Warhol often took multiple photographs of his subjects in order to capture their behavioral nuances. The tightly cropped format and a camera-mounted flash reduced features to flat planes and abstract shapes, making the images perfect for use in the silkscreen process. The sitter featured here, Bob Colacello, writer and former editor of Warhol’s Interview magazine, recalled that the artist tried to convince him to change his name to Bob Cola, as this “pop” reference would lend itself to fame.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Andy Warhol

Title

Bob Colacello

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1973

Medium

Internal dye diffusion transfer print

Dimensions

Image: 9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.); Paper: 10.8 × 8.6 cm (4 5/16 × 3 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Reference Number

2008.327

Copyright

© 2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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