Andy - Hardcover

Makos, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 2843232791 ISBN 13: 9782843232794

Publisher: Assouline, 2003

Synopsis

For the first time since they were shot in 1981, the story behind Christopher Makos' Altered Images photographs of Andy Warhol is told. Makos has a history of recognizing trends, fashions and social movements long before most others. His highly acclaimed book White Trash caught Warhol's eye and the two men began a friendship based on an ever-flowing exchange of ideas, inspiration and technical knowledge. Inspired by the famous photographs that Man Ray took of Marcel Duchamp in drag in 1921, "Rrose Selavy," Makos created a fresh and unique concept. Mixing elements of style, traditional gender cues, and mysterious sexuality, Makos went beyond portrait and photojournalism, giving a glimpse into the future of blurred gender and alternative drag. Evocation, intimate and campy, Andy is a true reflection of Makos' and Warhol's uniquely creative and fertile collaboration.

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About the Author:

Born in 1948, Christopher Makos grew up in California before moving to Paris to study architecture and later to work with Man Ray. Since 1970, he has worked at developing a style of boldly graphic photojournalism. He has become a seminal figure in the contemporary art scene in New York: he introduced artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiar and Keith Haring to Andy Warhol. His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe and Japan and the ones of Warhol have been regularly at Sotheby's.

From Booklist:

Warhol was a wily and prescient artist whose persona and work continue to yield surprising revelations. Cutlural critic Koestenbaum, in his recent Andy Warhol, writes at length about Warhol's fascination with doubling and the divide between inner and outer lives, an obsession outed in Makos' 1981 photographs of the artist in partial drag. Either wraithlike in faded jeans, white shirt, and tie, or regal wrapped in a white sheet, Warhol wears various women's wigs and starlet makeup, staring into the camera with an aging diva's pride and melancholy. In some shots, he holds a mirror, in one he balances a tape recorder on his lap--the tools of his trade. Ingrid Sischy ponders the paradox of Warhol's distinctive personality and chameleonlike aura, and Makos describes his collaboration with the artist-turned-model that resulted in images so unsettling they were kept under wraps for 20 years. Donna Seaman
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About this edition

• Publisher: Assouline
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 2843232791
• ISBN 13: 9782843232794
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134