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 23 February - 4 May 2005 "My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous," Warhol said. In the 60s and 70s, Andy Warhol made tens of thousands of photographs. His Red Books, small themed Polaroid albums, take us into his daily life at this fascinating time. In these eclectic images, his private life unfolds: TV and cinema personalities, celebrities from the art world, drag queens, frivolous weekends at the beach, chic lunches in European cities… Warhol produced eleven Red Books between 1969 and 1975, setting up a thorough system for cataloguing his photographs. They were arranged in sequence and then placed in Holson albums (unprepossessing red albums bought in ordinary photo equipment stores). Unlike the portraits Warhol used to produce his screen prints and paintings, these images are photos, taken without prior preparation and with much affection, of his friends and of visitors to the Factory. Among them we find Mick Jagger (1975), Paloma Picasso (1973), Larry Rivers, Jack Nicholson, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, David Bowie, William Burroughs, Rudolf Nureyev, and the Kennedy and Radziwell families during parties Warholheld at his place in Montauk. Each album is devoted to a theme relating to an event or a personality, and Warhol wrote or scribbled on many of the photos. Exhibition presented in collaboration with the Pace McGill Gallery, New York.
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