This 19"h x 13"w overall (14"h x 9.5"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.
Pictured at The Factory are artist Andy Warhol, Velvet Underground bandmembers Sterling Morrison, John Cale, Maureen Tucker and Lou Reed, and Factory regulars Mary Woronov and Gerard Malanga
Gerard Malanga was 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.
Brooklyn-born Mary Woronov is an actress, dancer and author who was one of Warhol’s Factory “Superstars”. She danced with the VU in the traveling Expoding Plastic Inevitable show and, since that time, she’s become very well-known for her roles in many “cult” films, including Death Race 2000, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, and 1982’s Eating Raoul.
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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