Andy Warhol's Black & White Portraits

These Andy Warhol portraits are all one-of-a-kind silver gelatin prints that capture their subjects in stark black and white. “Oddly, as much as Andy is known as ‘the master colorist,’ there is a whole powerful, primitive area of his work that was exclusively black and white,” says Pat Hackett, a New York-based writer and editor. Warhol turned to photography more and more in the years before his death, and “you could see how much it excited him,” she adds. “His whole view of the world and of art had always been that reality could not be improved upon. That made photography a natural next big step in his evolution as an artist.”

From “Rediscovered Photo Portraits by Andy Warhol” on The New York Times 

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