Newspaper Article

Andy Warhol

Colacello, Bob

2010

Overview

According to [Paul], the oldest of the threeWarhola (the family name) boys,he gave his little brother his first camera when he recovered - a Kodak Brownie - and he loved taking pictures of the family, their backyard and neighbourhood friends. AlthoughWarhol claimed their middle brother, John,'threw out'most of his things, including works he did in high school and as a Painting and Design major at the Carnegie Institute ofTechnology,when their parents'house was sold,some of these early Kodak pictures survived and are in the archives at theAndyWarhol Museum. But, as far as is known,[Andy Warhol] didn't take pictures again until 1968, when he acquired a Polaroid. In February 1976, he bought the just-released Minox 35EL, then the smallest camera to take full-frame 35mm photographs.'Oh, it's so great,' he said.'It looks like a James Bond camera.' From 1976 until his death, 11 years later, he took at least one roll of blackand-white film every day.Colour, he said, was 'too expensive', and it didn't have the paparazzi feeling he liked. Night after night, he'd set out for his round of art openings,movie premieres, book parties, dinners and discos, his jacket pockets stuffed with extra rolls of film and batteries.'It's work,' he would say, of both his party-going and his picture-taking.

• Publisher: Daily Telegraph
• Subject: Warhol, Andy