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 (on verso) by the artist, photographer Nat Finkelstein. 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.
According to Finkelstein - "Andy gave Bobby a great double image of Elvis. Bobby gave Andy
short shrift. Shooting and plundering finished, the Dylan gang headed for the door, me and
my Nikon on their heels. They left as they had entered...'Bobby the Waif' emerging as
'Robert the Triumphant'. They departed having tied the Elvis image to the top of their
station wagon, like a deer poached out of season. Much later, Bobby told me he'd traded the
Elvis (now worth millions) to his manager Albert Grossman for a couch!"
Mr. Dylan, I sure hope that the couch was comfortable...
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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