Andy Warhol and the power of immediacy brings us to this collection of his early Polaroids from between 1977 and 1983, sourced at hypebeast.com. The still-life Polaroids, most of which were never exhibited during Warhol's lifetime, were displayed through January 2009 at the Paul Kasmin Gallery, 511 27th Street New York, New York.
There's been a spate of critical comment about this exhibition. Some have raved, some have slated the artists and his pretty Polaroids as 'amateurish' and 'pseudo-artistic.' Despite this, it is pretty clear that the popular still-life Polaroid-style subjects making waves in the contemporary art/photog community (worldwide) have been influenced heavily by Warhol's experimental (and often, in true hipster inclination, ironic) photographic subjects.
Think soup cans.
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