"August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time."
-Sylvia Plath
emmy rossum at the ny premiere of the phantom of the opera, 2004
Andy Warhol’s Polaroids
With the invention of the [Polaroid]Big Shot, Warhol finally had the tool he needed to combine his two great loves, celebrity and mass-produced art, and turn them into a money-making machine. Once he developed his process of using the Polaroids to create silk-screened portraits, he immediately embarked on the creation of the artworks that he has become most famous for.
“Andy would have a table stacked with boxes of Polaroids and a couple Big Shot cameras. He would shoot and shoot, saying things like, “Oh! That looks so greeeeaaat.” An assistant would lay the images out on the table. Many dozens would be shot and they would pick one and send it to the screen maker. The sittings back then in the early 1980s were $25,000 each. They were backlogged with clients for months.” – Mark Sink
Detailed here.
Stephanie Hsu by Vanessa Zican Feng for Vogue Singapore March 2023
