It may seem like a recent phenomenon, but Andy Warhol was an anomalous life logger in the 1960s, endlessly snapping Polaroids of the celebrities buzzing around him.
“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person,” king of Pop Art Andy Warhol once said.
Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collection of instant pictures of friends, lovers, patrons, the famous, the obscure, the scenic, the fashionable, and himself.
The candid portraits, taken by Warhol with his Polaroid Big Shot Camera in the Seventies and Eighties, include leading lights from the world of music, movies and sport, from Liza Minelli and John Lennon to Arnold Schwarzenegger to Muhammad Ali.
Warhol himself even appeared in some Polaroids, from his Fright Wig of 1986
Debbie Harry
Diana Ross
Dolly Parton
Farrah Fawcett
Diane von Furstenberg
Liza Minelli
Georgio Armani
Jane Fonda
Dennis Hopper
Joan Collins
Martha Graham
Dorothy Hamill
Senator Edward Kennedy
Gianni Versace
Chris Evert
Jerry Hall
Jack Nicholson
Candy Darling
Divine
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Audrey Hepburn
Sonia Rykiel
Diana Vreeland
Little Edie Beale
Yves Saint Laurent
Bianca Jagger
Carolina Herrera
John Lennon
Yoko Ono
Arnold Schwarzengger
Mick Jagger
Truman Capote
Paloma Picasso
Halston
OJ Simpson
Muhammad Ali
(Photos by Andy Warhol)
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