Andy Warhol
Neil Winokur
American, born 1945
1982
A close-up silver-dye-bleach photographic portrait of a well-known cultural figure, made to record and scrutinize the subject’s public appearance with clinical precision.
The face fills the frame, centered and expressionless, with pale, bowl-cut hair and taut skin rendered in cool, even light against a soft aqua background, feeling more like a study than a flattering likeness.
The image belongs to a strand of late-20th-century portraiture that treats celebrity as a subject for close, almost forensic observation, probing how appearance and persona are constructed and circulated.
Medium
Silver dye bleach print
Dimensions
20 × 15 15/16" (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Horace W. Goldsmith Fund through Robert B. Menschel
Accession
522.1994
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