ANDY WARHOL – BEHIND THE CAMERA
2011-01-10The exhibition, Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera includes 60 works, It is the first time these photographs have been publicly shown. Prime examples of Warhol’s obsessive camerawork, they illustrate the artist’s largely unknown achievements in photography, which are as distinctive as his celebrated paintings, prints, and films.
The work of some photographers is forever identified with the particular cameras they used; Henri Cartier-Bresson and his state-of-the art Leica come to mind. This is true also of Warhol, who loved certain cameras to the point of obsession. But unlike fine-art photographers who typically master complicated equipment, Warhol invariably opted for devices marketed to the home consumer with as few controls as possible. Whether expensive Japanese miniature cameras or cheap Polaroid models, what mattered for Warhol was the lack of photographic “knowledge” required to operate them.
Opposite – Lorna Luft, 1982
Exhibition runs from January 15th to June 5th, 2011
University of Delaware
Newark
DE
19716
USA
