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Hanley & Belfus, 2001-12-31. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x1.
[Portrait Photograph of Andy Warhol & Parker Tyler] by Malanga, Gerard - 1969
by Malanga, Gerard
[Portrait Photograph of Andy Warhol & Parker Tyler]
by Malanga, Gerard
- Used
- very good
- Signed
[New York: Gerard Malanga], 1969. Photographs. Very good. [1969, printed later]. Image size 10 x 6 3/4 inches, sheet size 14 x 11 inches, mat size 16 x 12 inches. Numbered 2/10 and signed in pencil on the mat by Gerard Malanga. Loosely mounted on new archival back, new archival matting between original mat and print, and clear polyester protective cover. Small dents and minor crackling in print; toning, dust soiling, and several small ink smudges in original mat. Overall very good.
Exceptional portrait of Andy Warhol and Parker Tyler taken in New York in 1969. Tyler (1904-1974) was best known as a poet and film critic and, in his earlier life, co-author with Charles Henri Ford of the experimental novel, THE YOUNG AND EVIL (Paris: Obelisk Press, 1933). The photo shows Tyler and - extraordinarily - Warhol at ease and smiling, the latter jokingly clutching the former's crotch. Poet, photographer, and archivist Gerard Malanga (born 1943) was Warhol's right-hand man during the most important years of the Factory, where he worked from 1963 to 1970. Among his many collaborations with Warhol was the 1966/67 "Screen Tests" project. The project resulted in the 1967 book, SCREEN TESTS / A DIARY, which prints stills from film portraits of 54 poets, artists, musicians, and others, with poems by Malanga on facing pages. Malanga began pursuing portrait photography more actively in 1969, when the present photo was taken, and left the Factory in 1970 to pursue the work further. Over the next several years, Malanga photographed dozens of people, famous and not famous, associated with the New York avant garde and produced a body of portraits noted for their warmth and a clear rapport between photographer and subject. In an essay published in the 2000 retrospective book, GERARD MALANGA : SCREEN TESTS, PORTRAITS, AND NUDES, Ben Maddow writes, "One feels, in spite of one's hard earned skepticism ... on first viewing the labors of Gerard Malanga, a sensation of spontaneous pleasure. Each image is an act of friendship, and conciously so." He quotes Malanga from a letter, "Nothing is faked or was done for any other purpose than as archival remembrance. I believe each person, as it were, gave me their picture" (p. 120).
Exceptional portrait of Andy Warhol and Parker Tyler taken in New York in 1969. Tyler (1904-1974) was best known as a poet and film critic and, in his earlier life, co-author with Charles Henri Ford of the experimental novel, THE YOUNG AND EVIL (Paris: Obelisk Press, 1933). The photo shows Tyler and - extraordinarily - Warhol at ease and smiling, the latter jokingly clutching the former's crotch. Poet, photographer, and archivist Gerard Malanga (born 1943) was Warhol's right-hand man during the most important years of the Factory, where he worked from 1963 to 1970. Among his many collaborations with Warhol was the 1966/67 "Screen Tests" project. The project resulted in the 1967 book, SCREEN TESTS / A DIARY, which prints stills from film portraits of 54 poets, artists, musicians, and others, with poems by Malanga on facing pages. Malanga began pursuing portrait photography more actively in 1969, when the present photo was taken, and left the Factory in 1970 to pursue the work further. Over the next several years, Malanga photographed dozens of people, famous and not famous, associated with the New York avant garde and produced a body of portraits noted for their warmth and a clear rapport between photographer and subject. In an essay published in the 2000 retrospective book, GERARD MALANGA : SCREEN TESTS, PORTRAITS, AND NUDES, Ben Maddow writes, "One feels, in spite of one's hard earned skepticism ... on first viewing the labors of Gerard Malanga, a sensation of spontaneous pleasure. Each image is an act of friendship, and conciously so." He quotes Malanga from a letter, "Nothing is faked or was done for any other purpose than as archival remembrance. I believe each person, as it were, gave me their picture" (p. 120).
- Bookseller W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
- Format/Binding Photographs
- Book Condition Used - Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher Gerard Malanga]
- Place of Publication [New York
- Date Published 1969
- Keywords American art, modern art, photography, avant garde, LGBTQ, New York City