Screen Tests by Andy Warhol, First Edition (7 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 24 x 29cm 320pp very good hardback in dust jacket, a tiny chips at lower right corner. Initially published in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art In the mid-1960s, at the height of his creative powers, Andy Warhol produced hundreds of three-minute cinematic portraits, called Screen Tests. These short films captured a virtual whos who of the avant-garde, including such cultural icons as Edie Sedgwick, Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, and Susan Sontag. At last, in the initial volume of the authorized catalogue raisonne of Warhols films, Warhol authority Callie Angell examines all 189 people captured by Warhol's lens. Stills from many of the films appear here for the first time. Drawing on 13 years of original research into the Screen Test subjects and their relationships to Warhol, Angell provides an unprecedented look at the pop art masters working method, and a unique record of his colorful social and professional life. Packed with black and white reproductions.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Dust Jacket Condition: Sehr gut. 1. Auflage. Z : 200 pages - Steidl Collectors Series. Gerard Malanga made his reputation as a co-founder of Andy Warhol's factory. His career as a photographer began there between 1964 and 1966, when he and Warhol made screen tests of 300 people. Later on, he became famous for his portraits of Iggy Pop, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tennessee Williams, Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and William S. Burroughs. These photographs take the viewer back to pop culture (as it once was) and the Beat Generation. Still later, throughout the 80s and well into the 90s, Malanga gave the viewer a taste of the magical relation of femininity to charm, as embodied in his nudes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. A most sought after Warhol title with 54 full page plates on vellum of individual screen test stills taken at the Factory. A notoriously fragile volume as the vellum leaves are too heavy for the perfect binging and often come loose as is the case here. A clean copy with no markings, a few leaves have come loose from the binding, but collated and complete with all 54 plates, some wear to spine including a tear to top of spine. Rare and important.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. spine slightly worn, no markings.

Softcover. First edition. Artist's book. 54 portraits printed on vellum, and set to the poetry of Gerard Malanga from Warhol's Screen Tests series. Includes images of Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, Ondine, Jane Holzer, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Paul Morrissey, Charles Henri Ford, and many others. [319] pp; 25,5x19,2 cm. Condition: very good (some light reading creases to the spine and front cover; everything else in perfect condition).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. 57 images printed on transparent paper. Pictorial wrappers. Slightly rubbed, faint light crease on rear wrap, else near fine. Malanga's daily poetry diary accompanied by stills of Warhol's screen tests with Factory denizens and other luminaries. Includes images of Malanga, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Lou Reed, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, Ondine, Jane Holzer, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Paul Morrissey, Charles Henri Ford, and many others.

4°. [4] leafs and 54 plates Color illustrated card cover. Crone 604. Koetzle 479 f. - The only edition of the famous "photo" book with 54 portrait film sequences by Andy Warhol and prose poetry by his assistant Gerard Malanga. - With portraits of Paul America, Ted Berrigan, Salvador Dali, Donovan, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Katz, Sally Kirkland, Jonas Mekas, Nico, Lou Reed, Phoebe Russell and others - In the "Screen Tests", the person to be portrayed was placed in front of a screen and then filmed with a camera for three minutes in close-up. - In contrast to casting shots, Warhol attempted to illuminate the inner personality, with sometimes irritating consequences. - Each picture panel with an enlarged contact print of two to three individual images, printed on transparent paper, and with a pre-bound text sheet. - Today, the book is regarded as one of the first documents of Andy Warhol's photographic art. It was published in the same year as the "Index Book". - "He communicated with other people by photographing them, anytime and anywhere. He collected quantities of celebrity and fashion photographs, published his own photo books and made films as if they were stretched photographs. To portray someone, he photographed them. And he was photographed like no other artist of the century: "Photography and photography form the center of Andy Warhol's work" (U. M. Schneede). - Very good copy. Sprache: englisch.