ANDY WARHOL "CHER (PORTRAIT)" GELATIN SILVER PRINT, 1978 alex katz michele sketch Annotated 'PD 708' in pencil

Annotated 'PD 708' in pencil in an unknown hand on the verso

Mapplethorpe’s career was as glittering as it was controversial

The 80's was a decade that saw appropriation flourish in the visual arts

Printed 2006

and even Renaissance art appear in her work

ANDY WARHOL "CHER (PORTRAIT)" GELATIN SILVER PRINT, 1978 alex katz michele sketch Annotated 'PD 708' in pencilFrom 1976 until his death in 1987, Andy Warhol was rarely without a camera. Photography was fundamental both to his artistic practice and his engagement with the world around him. Though long a devotee to Polaroids, Warhol acquired a 35mm camera in 1977 and proceeded to shoot, on average, at least a roll of film a day over the following decade. Little escaped his lens: he recorded discos, dinner parties, flea markets, wrestling matches, and the social