This 13"h x 19"w overall (9.5"h x 14"w image size) digital photographic print on Epson Professional Photo paper is from an edition of 50 total prints signed, numbered and titled by the artist, photographer Nat Finkelstein (on verso). Published in 2007.
Shipped unmatted/unframed.
On an eagerly-awaited (for some) visit to The Factory in 1965 for a screen test/photo
session, Bob Dylan and his crew (including film-maker D.A. Pennebaker), along with their
host Andy Warhol, were photographed on set by Nat Finkelstein.
While working to get just the right shot (and having to jostle with the hordes that had
gathered to catch a glimpse and/or ingratiate themselves to the young musician), Finkelstein
thought to himself "do these people want exposure? Boy, will I give them exposure - all the
exposure that the floodlights on the set would allow! I told Andy and Bobby to put on shades
and look directly into the camera. I told Gerard to look to the side, but as he tried to
upstage everybody with a head-back pose which left him looking as though he suffered from
whiplash.
No one related to the other - the scene reminded me of three merchant princesses done by
some Flemish painter, and I shot them that way."
Gerard Malanga - One of the most important of Warhol’s collaborators during The Factory
period was poet/artist/chief assistant Gerard Malanga. From 1963 to 1970, Malanga assisted
the artist with producing prints, films (starring in many), sculpture, and other works at
"The Factory". Malanga was also Warhol’s partner in founding Interview Magazine.
From 1963 to 1968, the post-war Pop Art world partied at artist Andy Warhol’s mid-town New York City studio known as The Factory. 231 East 47th Street was where Warhol and his cohorts - artists, poets, porn stars, musicians, drug addicts and his “Superstars” - created his silkscreens and lithographs and his films, and it became the center of the Hip Universe.
For three years (1964-67), photographer Nat Finkelstein was on the scene, documenting the explosive emergence of Pop Art, a subversive spectacle created by the constantly calculating Andy Warhol (his book Andy Warhol: The Factory Years is "an extraordinary photographic account of the twisted, the addicted, the nameless, and the famous"). As the unofficial photojournalist and active member of the inner circle there, Finkelstein discreetly photographed many emerging stars, including Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Nico, Edie Sedgwick (of Factory Girl fame) along with the very-photogenic Warhol and other legends of art and literature such as Truman Capote, Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.
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