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Andy Warhol: Paris and Fashion

Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait in Fright Wig, 1986.

Sept 8 – Oct 12, 2022
4 Rue de Ponthieu, 75008 Paris, France

Back when Andy Warhol was Andrew Warhola, growing up in a small house in Pittsburgh, he was already taking photographs, spending long afternoons developing shots in a darkroom he’d set up. Once Warhol got to New York City in the 1960s, he used a Polaroid—instant documentation! The rapid-fire repetition implicit in photo-booth strips was another influence. In 1977, the Swiss art dealer Thomas Ammann gifted Warhol with a 35-millimeter Minox, a tool he carried for the rest of his life. Warhol often traveled to Paris, where he had an apartment in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and the pictures he shot while there make up this exhibition. Subjects include local landmarks, Warhol’s friends in fashion’s inner sanctum, actors, models, and celebrities such as Régine Zylberberg, a singer and nightclub impresaria. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: Ed Mumford/© the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by ADAGP, Paris, 2022/courtesy of Gagosian