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.
This image shows Andy Warhol & Lou Reed on tour bus to Ann Arbor for their appearance at the March 12, 1996 University of Michigan Film Festival (subtitled "Up-Tight with Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground"), where the VU played and Gerard and Edie were on display in Warhol's films (VINYL & LIFE) and light shows. This shot was featured in the book Andy Warhol - The Factory Years 1964-1967.
Attendees at the show said that the show's finale - a composition called "Nothing Song", which consisted of loud feedback and various noises, left their ears ringing for a long while after the show. The local audiences must have been happy, since the entire Plastic Inevitable show returned again in April 1967 to play 4 shows at the Hill Auditorium (Univ of MI).
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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