Andy Warhol's index (book) / with the assistance of Stephen Shore ... [and others] and particularly David Paul ; several photographs by Nat Finkelstein ; factory fotos by Billy Name.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.

Shore, Stephen, 1947-

Finkelstein, Nat.

Name, Billy, 1940-2016.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Black star book

A Black star book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987.

Warhol, Andy.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (part color, part folded) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 1967.

Summary:

This book, "published under the aegis of Andy Warhol, [is a] quintessential photobook [a] cornucopia of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snap-shots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves self-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol. Index (Book) is one of the most important and exuberant Pop art objects ever published. From its holographic bubble-wrap cover to the various pop-ups and 'gifts'--the castle, the red accordion, the balloon (nearly always found perished nowadays, or stuck to the pages)--to the stream-of-consciousness photographs by such artists as Billy Name and Nat Finkelstein, it is also one of the ultimate photobooks-as-objects. It is, in addition, the primary Factory photo album, one of the most authoritative biographies of Warhol and a supreme example of the diaristic photographic mode before there was a considered diaristic mode."--The Photobook : A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London : Phaidon, 2004.

Contents:

An interview with Andy at the balloon farm

Ingrid Superstar on the factory

Reprinted from the Fire Island news

Notes on Myepic.

OCLC:

349708