This 13"h x 19"w overall (9.5"h x 14"w image size) digital photographic print in color 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

 

Shown in this photo are Factory regulars Edie Sedgwick with Danny Williams, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale & Gerard Malanga. It was taken after filming of Warhol film LUPE in December 1965.

 

Warhol's film LUPE - about a real-life Hollywood socialite who committed suicide - was filmed in The Dakota (on NY's Central Park at 72nd St.) in an apartment belonging to heiress, socialite and supporter of NY's fringe art community, Panna Grady (her parties were dubbed "Pan of Gravy"). You'll note the Picassos on the wall behind Edie...

 

Edie Sedgwick (1943 - 1971) was an heiress and socialite who became part of Andy Warhol's Factory, going on to star in a number of his films. She met Warhol in 1965 and became a Factory regular, so when Warhol was filming VINYL, he cast Sedgwick in a small role. Because of her strange sense of fashion, style and "whatever" attitude, Warhol felt that she was star material and created a series of films, beginning with Poor Little Rich Girl, that would serve as her vehicle to fame.

 

Strong response from the art community kept her busy in Warhol films for the next year, appearing in films such as Kitchen, Beauty No. 2, Prison and Chelsea Girls. However, by the end of 1965, Warhol's and Sedgwick's relationship had strained to the point where Edie asked Andy to no longer show any of his films that featured her. She also asked that he strip her out of Chelsea Girls, which he did and replaced her with footage of Nico with colored lights projected on her face and Velvet Underground music playing in the background.

 

She began to spend more time with Bob Dylan and his friends and broke free of the Factory crowd in early 1966 after a very public argument in a NYC restaurant about money issues (he thought she had some when, in reality, she'd had her allowance cut off by her parents who were unhappy with her lifestyle). She went on to make a film with artist/poet Rene Ricard called The Andy Warhol Story (with Ricard playing Andy Warhol), but this film seems to have disappeared.

Edie died in 1971 from "acute barbiturate intoxication”, and The Velvet Underground song

"Femme Fatale" was written about her at Warhol's request.

 

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.