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 (Click here for framing options and costs)

 

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

made his move due to the fact that "these people were there only for my camera. They were

sitting together, but their existence was predicated on being recorded. They were Children

of the Darkness, vivified by my lights. I seized my moment."

 

An amazing study in black and white photography...

 

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.