While Long-Sharp Gallery has long been a champion of works by Andy Warhol, we’ve just added a new Warhol “section” to his artist page. This section involves Warhol’s photography.

Andy Warhol was always intent on recording the world around him. In the 1950s, this record consisted of sketches from the sketchbook Warhol was rarely seen without. As early as the 1960s (as well as the 70s and 80s), he began using cameras as a means of capturing his surroundings – first a polaroid camera, and then a treasured 35mm compact Minox.

He called his camera “his date”; it is thought that the camera acted as a tool – it allowed Warhol to engage with the world from behind a barrier, behind a lens.

In addition to capturing Warhol’s daily life (everything from friends to foods, from fashion trends to piles of city trash), the polaroids were used as a part of Warhol’s artistic process. Most often when creating his famed celebrity portraits, Warhol would first take several polaroid photos of the subject before making the move to canvas.

Explore our new Warhol Photography section and return often to see what we’ve added from our photography inventory.