Henry Geldzahler from The Geldzahler Portfolio
Andy Warhol
American, 1928–1987
1964, published 1998
A silent black-and-white video-transfer portrait by Andy Warhol that reproduces a reclining sitter in repeated frames to turn a private likeness into a cool, mechanical study of time and image.
A vertical strip of four nearly identical blue-toned images—each showing the sitter with a hand to his head—reads like a slowed film strip trapped in a clear cassette, so the repetition feels both hypnotic and oddly intimate.
By bringing video-transfer techniques into a printed portfolio, Warhol blurred film, print, and commodity, using mechanical repetition to rethink portraiture and the circulation of images.
Medium
Video transfer (black and white, silent) from a portfolio of three lithographs, two etchings (one with aquatint), two screenprints, one digital print, one offset lithograph, one solar plate intaglio, and one video transfer
Dimensions
99 min.
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
Accession
76.1999.11
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