Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987
Bob Colacello
INV-1943
Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987August 1973
Bob Colacello
Andy Warhol American, 1928–1987 →Pop Artphotographphotography
Date
August 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.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
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.
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