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Self-Portrait
Andy Warhol American
Not on view
Andy Warhol’s photo booth self-portrait is one of his earliest forays into photography, a medium that would dominate his artistic practice from 1963 onward. He made this multiframe photograph for a Harper’s Bazaar article on new talent in the New York art world. To create the portraits, Warhol took his subjects to Times Square with a sack of coins and inserted his sitter and a quarter into the photo booth, which automatically generated the sequential photographs. The article used the unaltered portrait strips, which looked like nothing else in any American magazine at the time. The photographs heralded the birth of image repetition, seriality, and graphic informality in 1960s art.
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