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Andy Jones in the Lufthansa HON/First Class Lounge in Munich
Shot with a Leica MP. I do not remember the lens. It was most likely the 35mm Summilux.
“Andy” was part of the signage erected at Anderson Dairy in the 1950s. The Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Chatting with Andy Timmons. Super nice musician who I had sold a pedal to a couple of years before. Best known for his 80’s band Danger Danger and currently as Olivia Newton Johns guitar player/collaborator.
I visited the newest exhibit at Crystal Bridges Museum of American art, "Warhol's Nature" on Saturday. I really enjoyed the art in this show which included paintings of animals and flowers, a real stuffed Great Dane, portraits of the artist, and even an interactive "selfie" camera that you could make a Warhol style picture with (I want to go back and do this!)
I thought a very appropriate song to accompany these images would be "Andy Warhol" by David Bowie:
Like to take a cement fix
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up
just for show
See them as they really are
Put a peephole in my brain
Two New Pence to have a go
I'd like to be a gallery
Put you all inside my show
[CHORUS]
Andy Warhol looks a scream
Hang him on my wall
Andy Warhol, Silver Screen
Can't tell them apart at all
Andy walking, Andy tired
Andy take a little snooze
Tie him up when he's fast asleep
Send him on a pleasant cruise
When he wakes up on the sea
Be sure to think of me and you
He'll think about paint
and he'll think about glue
What a jolly boring thing to do
Here's a link to the song! youtu.be/1Bhdo95XgtY
For 52 Weeks of Pix: "Line from a Song"
1965, Manhattan, New York, New York, USA --- Andy Warhol looking at Campbell's soup cans in Gristede's supermarket near his 47th street studio called The Factory in New York. --- Image by
This shot has been shortlisted in The Port Of Tyne Reflect Awards in the "People" category. Big thanks to Andy Brown for being my model!
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
Dutch postcard by Art Unlimted, Amsterdam, no. B 1609. Photo: Nat Finkelstein, 1966. Caption: Andy Warhol, white wall.
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was the 'Father of Pop Art' with his silk-screened pictures of Campbell's Soup cans and distorted images of Marilyn Monroe. He started directing films and most of his early work simply consisted of pointing the camera at something (a man asleep, the Empire State Building) and leaving it running, sometimes for hours. His films gradually grew more sophisticated, with scripts and soundtracks. They were generally performed by members of the Warhol "factory". In 1968, after a near-fatal shooting by an unstable fan, Warhol retired from direct involvement in filmmaking, and under former assistant Paul Morrissey, the Warhol films became increasingly commercial. Warhol spent the 1970s and 1980s as a major pop culture figure, constantly attending parties and providing patronage to younger artists.
Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in 1928 in Pittsburgh, USA. His parents were Ondrej (Andrew) Varhola and Julia Zavackyová Varholová, ethnic Lemko immigrants from the village of Miková in the Austria-Hungary Empire (now Slovakia). Ondrej, whose surname was originally written as Varhola, changed the spelling to Warhola when he emigrated to the US. He worked as a construction worker and later as a coal miner. His father, who travelled much on business trips, died when Warhol was 13. During his teenage years, Andy suffered from several nervous breakdowns. He showed artistic talent early on and went to study applied art in Pittsburgh at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University. There, he stood out by drawing two self-portraits showing him picking his nose (Upper Torso Boy Picking Nose and Full Figure Boy Picking Nose). In 1949, Andy graduated and dropped the letter 'a' from his last name. Warhol moved to New York, where he met Tina Fredericks, the art editor of Glamour Magazine. Warhol's early jobs were doing drawings for Glamour, such as the Success is a Job in New York and women's shoes. He also drew advertising for various magazines, including Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar, book jackets, and holiday greeting cards. In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at the Hugo Gallery in New York, of drawings to illustrate stories by Truman Capote. He started illustrating books, beginning with Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette. In 1956, he was included in his first group exhibition, Recent Drawings USA, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. By 1959, he was a successful advertising designer with an average annual income of $65000 and almost annual medals and other professional awards. In 1960, Warhol began to make his first paintings. They were based on comic strips in the likes of Dick Tracy, Popeye, and Superman. In the following years, Warhol started painting famous American products like Campbell's soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles in large formats. He managed to interest the influential gallery owner and art collector Leo Castelli in his work. He started using the silk-screen technique, not merely to create art using everyday commercial mass-produced items as his motif but to create even his own art as mass-produced items. Warhol preferred to become an emotionless machine. He set himself up as chief of a team of art workers who were engaged in making screen prints, films, books and magazines. This team operated in a studio near Union Square in New York. The studio was called the Factory because it actually housed a production line of paintings. The original Factory was located in an old cap factory at 231 East 47th street (fourth floor). This studio grew into a meeting place for artists, gays, transvestites, junkies and photographic models. Anyone with any artistic pretensions was welcome there.
After a few years, Andy Warhol moved his entourage to an office building across the street; 33 Union street West (sixth floor). This second Factory was called the Office by Warhol himself because it housed not only a studio but also the editorial office of Interview magazine, founded by Warhol. Warhol became known worldwide during the Factory years with his screen prints. He made screen prints of any subject that lent itself to it. Warhol's oeuvre largely draws on American popular culture. He painted and drew banknotes, cartoon images, food, women's shoes, celebrities and everyday objects. For him, these motifs represented American cultural values. Paul Morrisey managed to persuade Warhol to become the manager of a rock band. It would be a commercial success if Warhol combined his talent for generating media attention with a sensational rock group. Warhol was not immediately enthusiastic but after Morrisey's insistence, he relented. Morrisey had seen the Velvet Underground perform at cafe bizarre. After Warhol went to see, he was immediately excited. He saw a group standing with good looks who, while tourists sat drinking, sang about Heroine and SM. Warhol made the Velvet Underground part of his multimedia show Exploding Plastic Inevatible. He also produced The Velvet Underground's first album with Nico. He essentially lent his name to their work and observed them in the recording studio, while Lou Reed and later Tom Wilson mostly called the shots. The cover of the band's first album was Warhol's design: a banana with a peel that was actually a peelable sticker. On 3 June 1968, Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist author who hung around the Factory from time to time, turned up at the studio and shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya. Solanas had been rejected earlier that day at the Factory after she had requested the return of a script she had given Warhol for inspection. The script had apparently gone missing. Warhol was badly injured in the shooting and was even declared clinically dead in the hospital. He suffered the physical effects of the attack for the rest of his life and had to wear a corset to support his lower abdomen. The shooting had a major after-effect on Warhol's life and his art. The Factory became more tightly shielded and for many, this event marked the end of the Factory's wild years. That same day, Solanas turned herself in to the police and was arrested. Her explanation for this crime was that Warhol had become too much of an influence on her life. his incident is the subject of the film, I Shot Andy Warhol (Mary Harron, 1996).
Between 1963 and 1968, Andy Warhol was a prolific filmmaker. He made more than one hundred and sixty films, 60 of which are accessible. The films share similarities with his paintings, which also feature many repetitions and subtle variations of images. In the 1970s, Warhol banned the distribution of his films, but in the 1980s, after much insistence, he gave permission to restore the films. In many of his films, the usual projection speed was reduced from 24 frames to 16 frames per second. This is slightly different from usual slow-motion, where the film is actually shot at a higher speed and played back at normal speed. Warhol's technique gives the individual images more emphasis. One of his most famous films, and also his first, Sleep (1963), shows for eight hours a sleeping man, John Giorno, with whom he had a relationship. Warhol filmed for about three hours each time until the sun rose at five in the morning. Filming took a month. The film Kiss (1963) shows close-ups of kissing couples for 55 minutes. Blow Job (1963) is a continuous close-up of the face of a man (DeVeren Bookwalter) being orally satisfied off-screen. According to Warhol's later assistant, Gerard Malanga, the invisible role featured poet and filmmaker Willard Maas, although Warhol gave a different reading on this in his memoir 'Popism'. Warhol met Malanga in 1964, and they made Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of (1964). That year, Warhol also made a 99-minute portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's famous curator Henry Geldzahler. During the filming, Warhol simply walked away. The film clearly shows how Geldzahler was bored and uncomfortable by the camera. By the end of the film, he collapsed completely. Also from 1964 is the film Eat, featuring Warhol's colleague and friend Robert Indiana, who is eating a mushroom very sedately and in a close-up. Another film, Empire (1964), consists of an eight-hour shot of the Empire State Building in New York at dusk. Warhol's role-playing film Vinyl is an adaptation of the dystopian Anthony Burgess novel 'A Clockwork Orange'. Further films depict impromptu encounters with Factory hustlers such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico and Jackie Curtis. In the film Camp, legendary artist Jack Smith appears within the subculture. Many famous visitors to the Factory were put in front of the camera between 1963 and 1966, and filmed for 2 minutes and 45 seconds, the length of the standard roll of film. Usually, these were static portraits. By running the films more slowly, the expressions of the faces are greatly magnified. These shots resulted in about 500 films, called Screentests by Warhol. Among those portrayed are film star Dennis Hopper and pop star Lou Reed. The films were edited in various compositions and shown at Warhol exhibitions and in movie houses. Warhol's unorthodox approach is exemplified by Kitchen (1965). The actors do not know their roles by heart, but the screenplay is hidden in various places on the set. The scriptwriter whispers lines of dialogue from outside the frame. Snapshots are taken during filming. The set designer appears on the screen. Dialogue is drowned out by the sound of a mixer. There are long periods when nothing happens. There are two pairs of characters with the same names. Warhol was not interested in auctorial control but shifted the burden from the director to the actors and the shooting crew. He showed little interest in story intrigue, which he considered old-fashioned, or technical aspects of filmmaking. Warhol wanted to explore the borders between feigned action and the more authentic behaviour of non-actors, which is why he kept the camera running constantly: he didn't want to miss anything. In the summer of 1965, Andy Warhol met Paul Morrissey, who became his advisor and collaborator. Warhol's most successful film was Chelsea Girls (1966). The film was innovative as it consisted of two simultaneously projected 16-mm rolls of film with divergent narratives. From the projection booth, the sound level for one film was raised to clarify that story while it was lowered for the other, after which the reels were reversed. Chelsea Girls became the first underground film to be shown at a commercial theatre. Warhol also used this method of doubling the image in his screen prints of the early 1960s. The influence of film with multiple simultaneous layers and stories is noticeable in modern productions like Mike Figgis's Timecode and, indirectly, the first seasons of 24. Other important films include My Hustler (1965) and Lonesome Cowboys (1968), a homoerotic pseudo-Western. Blue Movie, a film in which Warhol's 'superstar' Viva has sex with a man for 33 minutes, was Warhol's last film of his own. After the film caused a scandal because of its liberal approach to sexuality, Viva managed to block its public screening for a long time. The film was not shown again in New York until 2005, for the first time in 30 years.
Compared to Andy Warhol's provocative work in the 1960s, the 1970s were artistically less productive, although Warhol became much more businesslike. He retired as a film director and left filmmaking to Paul Morrissey. The latter steered the approach to Warhol films more and more in the direction of ordinary B-movies with a clear narrative, for example, Flesh, Trash and Heat. These films, as well as the later films Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein, were much more normal than anything Warhol had ever made himself as a director. The star of these films was Joe Dallesandro, who was actually a Morrissey star rather than a true Andy Warhol superstar. Another film that caused a lot of furore as a Warhol film was Bad. starring Carroll Baker and Perry King. This film was actually directed by Jed Johnson. To increase the success of the later films, all of Warhol's earlier avant-garde films were withdrawn from circulation around 1972. Warhol founded Interview magazine in 1969. He resumed painting in 1972, although it was primarily celebrity portraits. According to his assistant during his later years, Bob Colacello, Warhol mainly sought out wealthy people from whom he could secure portrait commissions, such as Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross, Brigitte Bardot and Michael Jackson, as well as lesser-known bank executives and collectors. In 1975 published his book 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol', in which he explained his down-to-earth ideas about art and life. Incidentally, he appeared in films and TV shows. When guesting on The Love Boat (1977), he was nervous about the experience and turned to his castmate Marion Ross, who calmed him down and offered some advice on how to act. In 1976, Warhol began a daily routine. Every morning at 9 am, he would call Pat Hackett, whom he had hired to keep track of his expenses. What was initially supposed to be just a morning bookkeeping session soon turned into an extremely intimate exchange of private experiences between the two of them. Warhol, who was "addicted to the phone anyway", told Hackett about the rather delicate details of the New York scene and celebrities, a subject that had interested him since childhood. Like his time capsules, the conversations were for capturing a picture of the times. After his death, Hackett released some of these notes in the book 'The Andy Warhol Diaries'. In 2022, this book was made into a Netflix documentary. Andy Warhol worked for several years with Jean-Michel Basquiat a young artist in whom he recognised much of himself. The collaboration was equal, Warhol was past his prime and Basquiat had already established his name. This equality allowed them to collaborate on some 140 works, some of which were exhibited in a duo exhibition at the New York gallery Tony Shafrazi in 1985. The ensuing New York Times review made Basquiat Warhol's mascot after which their collaboration and also their friendship cooled. Warhol died in 1987 at the age of 58 in New York. He was recovering from a routine operation on his gallbladder when he died of cardiac arrest in his sleep. Hospital staff had administered sleeping pills to him after the operation and had not sufficiently monitored his well-being. Consequently, lawyers for Warhol's next of kin sued the hospital for negligence. Warhol constantly delayed medical treatment because he was afraid of hospitals and disliked doctors. Warhol was buried at St John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, south of Pittsburgh. Yoko Ono was among those who gave a farewell address at his funeral. International auction house Sotheby's took nine days to auction off Warhol's immense collection of art and 'knickknacks'. The gross proceeds of this auction were about US$20 million. In 1990, Lou Reed and John Cale made a CD album called 'Songs for Drella' as a tribute to Warhol with 15 songs about Warhol's life.
Sources: Herman Hou (IMDb), Michael Brooke (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch) and IMDb.
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D1015 "Western Champion" is seen passing Crowcombe Heathfield Station on the West Somerset Railway working 1Z48 07:28 Chester - Bishops Lydeard Gbrf on the 6th September 2014.
This was a private GBRf Staff Charter, which ended up starting at Crewe rather than Chester.
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Meet Andy, stranger #217 in my ongoing strangers project.
I met Andy on the streets of Nottingham whilst spending a few hours shooting with my brother and nephew. In many ways he was the classic type of stranger I go for- and I was loving his beard. Jealous indeed.
Andy was kind enough to stop for me, and to stand in the middle of the road (and tram lines) for me to get the leading lines into this shot.
Andy manages a bar in the centre of Nottingham, and himself is a photographer. He told me that he had just dropped off a role of 120, and that he mainly shoots film these days.
Whilst I had been planning to do this set entirely in B&W, I have to admit that I've found it quite hard to do. I've been missing a bit of colour in my project, and whilst I will try and do B&W versions of the entire set, I will now be including colour portraits on the 100 strangers group. I guess that I am keen that I don't limit the approach for the sake of it, and also I am keen to see how the little Fuji rocks some colour shots.
Thanks very much for being part of my project Andy, and I wish you good luck with your photography.
Great pleasure to meet the world famous Spandy Andy this summer. We did a quick photo shoot on Henley Beach.
One of my favorite photos of my beloved Andy.
I have posted the last of the scanned photos of Andy and Amber as puppies.
There are a lot more of Amber as she wasn't near as camera shy.
Andy is practicing very hard to be on the Olympic diving team. He invents his own moves and dives and he gives them fancy names like "The Ginormaous Canon Ball-o-rama, and the Twisty-Turny Twiddleedoo". His neighbor, Phyllis, sews and she made him a swim suit that will draw attention to his fancy moves and make each of Andy's dives more of a spectacle. Whenever Andy comes out of the water for air, he does this fancy trick where he spits water out of his mouth and through his teeth so that he looks like a fancy fountain. He is sure that if his dives are around an 8 out of 10, his finale will make them a 10 out of 10.
Andy measures 11" tall and about 6" wide
I've known Andy for years, and I first met his gorgeous fiance Bethany about 6 months ago at a friend's birthday party. Andy had emailed me about shooting their wedding, and I said no - because I really dislike shooting weddings. A couple months later, I started wondering if they had found another wedding photographer yet. And the next day, I got an email from Bethany asking for more photographer recommendations, because they hadn't found someone yet. I felt like it was a sign that I should take the plunge and agree to shoot their wedding. They are an amazing couple and I'm actually really excited for the wedding!
We had rescheduled their engagement session numerous times due to bad weather, but their wedding is now less than a month away so we decided to just brave the 45-degree weather and rain and do their photos anyway. Bethany was totally awesome, wearing dresses for all of their photos despite the bad weather. This photo was actually taken on the boat that they'll be getting married on!
Canon 5D Mark II, 50mm f/1.4. Natural light.
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66027 is seen approaching Hindley working 6M16 10:01 Tees N.Y. to Knowsley Freight Terminal.
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Feeling defeated by the sudden and unrelenting downpour of rain (I mean seriously it's supposed to be nearing summer in the UK) I had packed my camera away and was headign back to the car - it was of course at this point that I spotted this geezer walking by and decided to chase after him for a street portrait - he had a cool look and the yellow flower kinda lifted his image.
He was happy to stop, even moving into the tramlines for me (I really wanted to use them in the rain) and I backed up a fair bit to bag the shot with the 85mm.
Andy even let me get up for a detail shot with the reflector popping in some fill light.
Andy is an interior designer, I always think anything to do with design has a cool edge and I feel that comes across in his own style here.
He has been in touch soon and explained he was in a rush to get a train - thanks for taking the time to stop and I hope you like the images - I'll send you a dropbox link via Facebook to them later!
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These are the surviving outfits from my second generation of Ann and Andy's wardrobe. I crafted all of the clothes featured in this photo, since I was more neat about drawing and coloring things in than Colleen. I believe the top row of outfits were all recreations of old ones that we threw out because they were drawn so badly. The top row showcases Ann and Andy's "Elvis" outfits, random play clothes, and their "prince and princess" costumes. The second row features their "sick day" clothes, their name outfits, and of course their artist ensembles (not that I recall either of them being artistically gifted). The last four outfits consist of their music playing attire, and then three sets of play clothes. The first set of play clothes, which is striped, was actually created by my sister.
The two sets of outfits on the bottom row are actually a very important part of my adult doll collection. I created them during the fall of 2010, before I had even restarted my doll hobby. At the time, my dad was very sick, and was still recovering from his cancer treatment and surgery. Colleen was finishing her last semester of college, and I had graduated from cosmetology school some months before. I stayed home to take care of Dad--make sure he took his medications, tested his blood sugar, didn't fall or get hurt, and made him food. I was nineteen years old and home bound almost all the time. Dad slept most days, because it was the only time he could get relief from his pain and suffering. That meant I spent all the hours he didn't need me, sitting around the house completely bored. After a few weeks, my iPod stopped being entertaining, and I was really sick of the television (maybe that's why I don't watch t.v. these days). Since high school, my low self esteem had crippled me from doing anything artistically inclined. But it was during these lonely hours that I finally worked up the nerve to break out my sketchbook, and my untouched art boxes that Dad had bought me for Christmas when I was fifteen. At first, I was too afraid to work on any actual projects, so I mostly just doodled random things and played around with my supplies. But then one day, I felt the urge to make paper doll clothes. I knew that Colleen and I never threw Ann and Andy out, so I set off on a quest to locate them in our trashed basement (which looked like a scary episode of "Hoarders" at the time). I found them in a set of white drawers with my old Mary-Kate and Ashley/Bratz posters, and other odds and ends from my old bedroom/old life. I took Ann and Andy upstairs, traced them, and created these two sets of outfits. That one action forever changed me. After that, I set out to redesign Ann and Andy's relatives, which eventually led to me designing paintings for my Disney dolls once I started collecting dolls again. Without these outfits, my earrings, headbands, doll stands, paintings, and all other artistic pursuits would be non-existent. These simple paper doll clothes reminded me of why I loved creating art in the first place!
The Schleck Brothers
I was fortunate to be able to make a double portrait of Andy & Fränk.
I make it a priority to be able to work fast on these occasions, so I don't bore my 'models' with technical delays.
The whole session was over in less than 10 minutes and we had fun doing it.
This is 1 of 3 set-ups we were able to do.
More pics later.
strobist info:
1 (VAL-led) Elinchrome Quadra with 1m Rotalux Octa overhead as main light (just out of frame, against the ceiling)
1 Rayflash-ringflash as fill
Octa mounted on Manfrotto-monopod so assistent could maneuver easely and rapidly
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Hoje [dia 30/08] eu e a Evan viemos desejar feliz aniversário pra dinda dela e amiga minha. ^_^
Evan: Feliz aniversááário dindinha! *------* Fiz um bolo só pra ti, óh! ♥♥♥
A Andy foi uma das primeiras bonequeiras que eu conheci, e a primeira que se tornou minha amiga. És muito especial pra mim e eu quero te desenhar toda felicidade do mundo, minha amoura! Tu merece ♥
Parabéns, Andy!!!