With his new photography show in New York City, photographer and former editor of Interview magazine Bob Colacello remembers a different age of celebrity, art and popular culture within Andy Warhol’s orbit
“I was 22 years old and still in graduate school at Columbia University when I got this call from the then editor ofsaying that Andy Warhol had just started this magazine and he had been reading film reviews I had written in theand would like to meet me and see if I was interested in writing for their magazine. I was beside myself because for me and my generation, Andy Warhol was an icon of the 60s, rebellion and cool and up there with Mick Jagger and William Burroughs.
“I wasn’t a photographer. Most of the pictures were taken at private parties and not film premieres or art openings. They were taken at Valentino’s chalet in Gstaad. Or hanging out with Andy in his hotel rooms where he’s lying on his bed and having a nap in his jeans. People didn’t pose for me. They barely noticed me taking a picture because I would take very few. I had this little Minox that was in my inside jacket pocket.
“Andy and I both got these cameras on the same day in Bonn, West Germany. Andy had an exhibition in Zurich with Bruno Bischofberger, but Bruno’s assistant showed up at Andy’s hotel suite with his little Minox 35 EL. It was the first 35 millimetre camera that was really small. We looked all over Zurich and they were sold out everywhere.
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