Few American artists have shaped modern visual culture as profoundly as Andy Warhol (1928–1987), whose experimentation with mass media helped define what it means to be an artist in an image-saturated age. Andy Warhol Family Album presents a collection of Polaroids from 1972–73 that captures Warhol’s immediate world of collaborators, celebrities, and friends. Drawn from one of six Holson albums that Warhol maintained as a personal archive, the exhibition includes posed portraits, candid photographs of guests visiting his home in Montauk, travel images from Europe, and photographs of his dog Archie. Together, these works offer a glimpse into Warhol’s day-to-day life and photographic practice.
Andy Warhol, "Andy Warhol and Archie", 1973. Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.